in030338, Call for Contributions on a Strategic Review of the US Acquisition, Retention and Relinquishment of Secretariats - Action Item 15 from the February 2003 SPB Meeting

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InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards
INCITS Secretariat, Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)
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Date:	March 11, 2003
Contributions Due:	March 28, 2003
Reply to:	Jennifer Garner
Phone:	(202) 626-5737
Email:	jgarner@itic.org

To:	INCITS Standards Policy Board Members
Subject:	Call for Contributions on a Strategic Review of the US Acquisition, Retention and Relinquishment of Secretariats - Action Item 15 from the February 2003 SPB Meeting

Background

At the February 2003 inaugural meeting of the INCITS Standards Policy Board, the following action item was assigned:

15. The INCITS Secretariat will issue a call for contributions on a strategic review of the US acquisition, retention and relinquishment of Secretariats. Contributions will be reviewed at the April 2003 Standards Policy Board meeting. (Agenda Item 7.1, February 2003 SPB minutes)

At this time, the US holds the following JTC 1 and JTC 1 Subcommittee Secretariats:

Committee	Formal Title	Secretariat Administration and Funding	US TAG
JTC 1	Information Technology	ANSI - administration INCITS and other SDOs with TAG assignments - funding	INCITS
SC 11	Flexible Magnetic Media for Digital Data Interchange	ANSI - administration INCITS - funding NOTE: The US National Body has issued notification of relinquishment of the SC 11 Secretariat effective December 31, 2003	INCITS/B5
SC 22	Programming Languages, their Environments and Systems Software Interfaces	ANSI - administration INCITS - funding	INCITS/CT22
SC 31	Automatic Identification and Data Capture Techniques	UCC - administration and funding	FMI/SC 31 TAG
SC 32	Data Management and Interchange	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - administration US Environmental Protection Agency - funding NOTE: The Environmental Protection Agency has notified INCITS of its intent to cease financial support for the SC 32 Secretariat at the end of January 2004. A call for candidates to serve as the SC 32 Secretariat has been posted in ANSI Standards Action and will close on April 31, 2003. The matter will be addressed at the April 2003 SPB meeting.	INCITS/H2 and L8, DISA/SC 32/WG 1 TAG
SC 34	Document Description and Processing Languages	ANSI - administration INCITS - funding NOTE: The US National Body has issued notification of relinquishment of the SC 34 Secretariat effective December 1, 2003.	INCITS/V1
SC 36	Information Technology for Learning, Education, and Training	Foundation for Institutional Development - administration and funding	INCITS/V36
SC 37	Biometrics	ANSI - administration NIST - funding	INCITS/M1

Requested Action

Members of the INCITS Standards Policy Board (SPB) are invited to submit contributions on a strategic review of the US acquisition, retention and relinquishment of Secretariats for consideration at the April 2003 Standards Policy Board meeting. Contributions should be submitted to the INCITS Secretariat (jgarner@itic.org) by March 28, 2003.