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Doc. No.: PR/97-126
Reply to: Deborah J. Donovan at ddonovan@itic.nw.dc.us
Washington D.C., October 1997 - NCITS (National Committee for Information Technology Standards is announcing the public comment period for the adoption of ISO/IEC 11756:1994 as an American National Standard. The public review extends from October 24, 1997, to December 23, 1997.
This international Standard specifies the procedures to be followed by a Registration Authority in preparing, maintaining and publishing an International Register of numeric identifiers allocated to algorithms for the lossless compression of data, excluding cryptographic algorithms.
Submit all comments to: NCITS Secretariat, Attn.: Deborah J. Donovan, 1250 Eye Street, NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20005, Email: ddonovan@itic.nw.dc.us. Send a copy to: ANSI, Attn.: BSR Center, 11 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036.
A call for possible patents and pertinent issues (copyrights, trademarks) is also being issued. Please submit information on these issues to the NCITS Secretariat at 1250 Eye Street NW, Suite 200, Washington DC 20005. Email: NCITS@itic.nw.dc.us FAX: (202)638-4922.
The document can be purchased for from American National Standards Institute, 11 West 42nd Street, New York, New York 10036. Telephone: 212-642-4900
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