Dear Pat,
Yes, ISO/IEC 80000 is the successor to ISO 31. Like its predecessor it
comprises over a dozen parts. This new standard is nearly complete now
and ISO 31 is close to being completely obsolete.
IEEE Standards Coordinating Committee 14 (SCC 14) is developing a
parallel standard which will be known as IEEE Std 80000. Whereas ISO/IEC
80000 is a dual language document (French and English) similar to ISO
31, IEEE Std 80000 will be in English only. Also, American language
spellings will be used and the period, not the comma, will be used for
the decimal marker. We will make other, minor changes as well. See
USMA's "Metric Today" on this.
Members of SCC 14 serve as the U.S. Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to
the committees ISO/TC 12 and IEC/TC 25 that are working on the
development of ISO/IEC 80000. Thus we are in good position to develop
IEEE Std 80000. We will put our standard up to ANSI to make it an
American National Standard. Ambler Thompson (NIST) chairs the U.S. TAG
as well as being the Vice Chair of SCC 14 and the Chair of our 80000
Working Group.
Jim Frysinger
Chair, IEEE SCC 14
Pat Naughtin wrote:
Dear Jim,
Do you know what ISO 80 000 is? Is it a direct replacement for ISO 31?
See http://groups.google.com/group/misc.metric-system/browse_thread/thread/538e265104bf9338?hl=en
for some discussion of these documents.
Cheers,
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