Press Index Accredited Standards Committee * X3, Information Technology NEWS RELEASE Doc. No.: PR/96-106 Reply to: Deborah J. Donovan at ddonovan@itic.nw.dc.us
Washington D.C., December 1996 -- Accredited Standards Committee X3, Information Technology announces approval of this new project being developed within Technical Committee, X3J7, APT. The reference number for this project is 55-R.
This fifth revision of the APT Standard will concentrate on satisfying the above needs. New language will be developed to incorporate the capabilities of new applications into APT. The need to build on the symbolic interface language contained in the current standard will be investigated and new language may be developed to accomplish this. Technical equivalence with ISO and related standards will continue to be a priority. As a maintenance task, the current standard language will be reviewed for its correctness and completeness with regard to current practice.
Inquiries regarding this should be sent to the Chairman of X3J7, Mr. P. J. Sturdevant, Cincinnati Milacron, Department 51-D, 4701 Marburg Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45209 Email: pj_sturdevant@milacron.com
The next meeting of X3J7 is January 19-22, 1997 in the Orlando, FLA. All organizations and individuals who are materially or directly affected are invited to participate.
An initial call for possible patents and other pertinent issues (copyrights, trademarks) is now being issued. Please submit information on these issues to the X3 Secretariat at 1250 Eye Street NW, Suite 200, Washington DC 20005. Email: x3sec@itic.nw.dc.us FAX: (202) 638-4922.
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