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February 25, 2003

Subject:
Item for Publication in ANSI Standards Action - Call for New Secretariat for JTC 1/SC 32
 
From:
Henrietta Scully, ANSI




International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

Call for New Secretary

Relinquishment of ISO Subcommittee Secretariat

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32  - Information technology - Data Management  and interchange

ANSI has been advised that the Pacific Northwest Lab (US DOE) no longer wish to serve as Secretary for this International Subcommittee. 

        The scope of JTC 1/SC 32 is as follows:

Standards for data management within and among local and distributed information systems environments. SC 32 provides enabling technologies to promote harmonization of data management facilities across sector-specific areas.

Specifically, SC 32 standards include:
  1. reference models and frameworks for the coordination of existing and emerging standards;
  2. definition of data domains, data types and data structures, and their associated semantics;
  3. languages, services and protocols for persistent storage, concurrent access, concurrent update and interchange of data;
  4. methods, languages, services and protocols to structure, organize and register metadata and other information resources associated with sharing and interoperability, including electronic commerce.
Any organization wishing to assume the role of US delegated Secretariat, please contact Henrietta Scully via email: hscully@ansi.org; mail: c/o ANSI, 25 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036; or fax to (212) 730-1346 before (30 days or April 2, 2003, which ever is the earliest date).