From rinehuls@access.digex.net Fri May 3 23:50:50 1996 Received: from access2.digex.net (qlrhmEbBUV1EY@access2.digex.net [205.197.245.193]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id XAA26393 for ; Fri, 3 May 1996 23:50:45 +0200 Received: from localhost (rinehuls@localhost) by access2.digex.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA06540 ; for ; Fri, 3 May 1996 17:50:29 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 17:50:28 -0400 (EDT) From: "william c. rinehuls" X-Sender: rinehuls@access2.digex.net To: sc22docs@dkuug.dk Subject: SC22 N2134 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Programming languages, their enviornments and system software interfaces Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N2134 May 1996 TITLE: Value of Standards/Value of JTC 1 SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 WORK ITEM: N/A STATUS: N/A CROSS REFERENCE: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: N/A ACTION: To SC22 Member Bodies and Working Group Con- venors for action or information as applicable. SC22 Member Bodies and Working Group Conveners with comments specifically related to the work of SC22 are encouraged to submit these comments to Mr. Robert Follett, SC22 Chairman, NOT LATER THAN APRIL 30, 1996 for forwarding. SC22 Member Bodies comments not specifically related to the work of SC22 should be submitted through their respective National Body. Address reply to: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat William C. Rinehuls 8457 Rushing Creek Court Springfield, VA 22153 USA Tel: +1 (703) 912-9680 Fax: +1 (703) 912-2973 email: rinehuls@access.digex.net _____________________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 01 May 96 15:05:00 edt From: LISA RAJCHEL Subject: Japan's Homework Assignment Attached please find document JTC 1 N 4093, Japanese Contribution on JTC 1 Reengineering addressing the Value of Standards/Value of JTC 1. National Body and SC contributions are requested on this document by 7 June 1996. PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS VIS EMAIL OR DISK SO THAT THEY MAY BE DISTRIBUTED VIA EMAIL. This document is also being sent via facsimile in order to ensure that it reaches everyone.[[ JAPAN.TXT : 3850 in JAPAN.TXT ]] ___________________________________________________________________ ISO/IEC JTC 1 N 4093 Title : Value of Standards/Value of JTC 1 Source: National Body of Japan Action: This document is circulated to JTC 1 National Bodies and Subcommittees for review and comment by 7 June 1996. Standardization, through the formulation of standards and conformity, is activities by which physical objects or conditions are intentionally reduced in number and put into simplified and systematic order in areas where diversification, complexity and disorder could increase unless it is applied. Such simplification, systematic order etc. will help promote world-wide economies and efficiencies and global trade. In the field of Information Technology, standards are expected to enable IT suppliers to provide IT users with appropriate means to acquire or manage information or information systems efficiently, economically, accurately and securely. The value of IT standards, accordingly, lies in: (1) Offering mechanisms required for interoperability (2) Offering a means for maintaining high quality of IT products (3) Enhancing the feasibility of multi-vendor systems (4) Offering standards that meet business requirements and thereby enhance trade Considering the above value of IT standards, the value of JTC1, the premier provider of IT standards, lies in: (1) Offering globally recognized standards that can be adopted as, or referred to, by national standards. (2) Offering the transparent IPR policy (3) Offering durable standards. (4) Stressing the importance of multi-vendor aspects of its standards as an important enabler of international commerce (5) Being the only one organization that considers internationalization and culture dependency in developing standards (6) Offering solutions stressing modularity and portability from the outset. (7) Clarifying conformance criteria for related standards and providing such standards as can be bases for certification and accreditation. Further to the above discussion, new trends in standards activities under rapidly changing environments should be taken into account in considering the Value of JTC 1. In the field of most advanced technologies like Information Technology, such moves are becoming more and more prominent among industries as to consider standards activities as a strategic means for competition. This trend has been resulting in giving more weight to de facto standards. De jure standards, regardless of the openness and transparency of their contents, development processes, developing membership etc., have problems of slow development speed that could make them obsolete and valueless when published. Under such circumstances, the Value of JTC 1 will be enhanced if it can: (1) Offer more complete solutions to Standard/IPR issues, e.g., protection from Submarine Patent problems (2) Offer standards accompanied by reference implementation (3) Make more openly and freely available contents of standards, e.g., on network, from an early stage of developing processes end of note ISO/IEC JTC 1 N 4093 Title : Value of Standards/Value of JTC 1 Source: National Body of Japan Action: This document is circulated to JTC 1 National Bodies and Subcommittees for review and comment by 7 June 1996. Standardization, through the formulation of standards and conformity, is activities by which physical objects or conditions are intentionally reduced in number and put into simplified and systematic order in areas where diversification, complexity and disorder could increase unless it is applied. Such simplification, systematic order etc. will help promote world-wide economies and efficiencies and global trade. In the field of Information Technology, standards are expected to enable IT suppliers to provide IT users with appropriate means to acquire or manage information or information systems efficiently, economically, accurately and securely. The value of IT standards, accordingly, lies in: (1) Offering mechanisms required for interoperability (2) Offering a means for maintaining high quality of IT products (3) Enhancing the feasibility of multi-vendor systems (4) Offering standards that meet business requirements and thereby enhance trade Considering the above value of IT standards, the value of JTC1, the premier provider of IT standards, lies in: (1) Offering globally recognized standards that can be adopted as, or referred to, by national standards. (2) Offering the transparent IPR policy (3) Offering durable standards. (4) Stressing the importance of multi-vendor aspects of its standards as an important enabler of international commerce (5) Being the only one organization that considers internationalization and culture dependency in developing standards (6) Offering solutions stressing modularity and portability from the outset. (7) Clarifying conformance criteria for related standards and providing such standards as can be bases for certification and accreditation. Further to the above discussion, new trends in standards activities under rapidly changing environments should be taken into account in considering the Value of JTC 1. In the field of most advanced technologies like Information Technology, such moves are becoming more and more prominent among industries as to consider standards activities as a strategic means for competition. This trend has been resulting in giving more weight to de facto standards. De jure standards, regardless of the openness and transparency of their contents, development processes, developing membership etc., have problems of slow development speed that could make them obsolete and valueless when published. Under such circumstances, the Value of JTC 1 will be enhanced if it can: (1) Offer more complete solutions to Standard/IPR issues, e.g., protection from Submarine Patent problems (2) Offer standards accompanied by reference implementation (3) Make more openly and freely available contents of standards, e.g., on network, from an early stage of developing processes end of note