Doc: in030162
Date: January 29, 2003
Reply to: Jennifer Garner
Phone: 202-626-5737
email: jgarner@itic.org

As detailed in the proposed INCITS/RD-2, Organization and Procedures (in030017), the program of work for the Long Range Planning Board Committee (LRPBC) is as follows:

3.3.5.3 Long Range Planning Board Committee (LRPBC)

The Long Range Planning Board Committee operates under the auspices of the Executive Board.

The LRP is an advisory committee of the Executive Board and is responsible for making recommendations to the Executive Board and providing strategic vision beyond the then-current financial budget monitored by the Finance Board Committee's 2-year plan.

The Executive Board has delegated the following responsibilities to the Long Range Planning Board Committee:

• Develop and maintain the Long Range Plan for the Executive Board.
• Recommend to the Executive Board standardization areas to pursue, maintain, and/or abandon.
• Monitor (e.g., study, evaluate, assess) trends and status of the following:
  • External Factors: as a means to identify candidate areas of standards development:
    • technology (e.g., JTC 1 technology watch activities)
    • other groups that develop related standards
• Internal Factors: as a means to assess the organization's capabilities:
  • project activity (e.g., new project starts, development cycle duration)
  • participation
  • organization
  • standardization life cycle