31. Who comes up with these standards? Can I have any input to the process?

 In the case of the colored books, they have been developed by engineers

  within Philips and Sony. Few people outside these companies have input into

  the process.



  The file format standards (ISO 9660, Rock Ridge, and ECMA 168) have all

  been developed originally by ad-hoc groups of interested people from

  various companies in the industry, then have been submitted to established

  standards organizations (ECMA, ANSI, ISO) for further work there.



  The CD-ROM Architecture Working Group is an official Standards working 

  Group under the auspices of the IEEE Computer Society by way of the

  Standards Committee for Optical Disks and Multimedia Platforms (SCODMP)

  chaired and sponsored by Dr. Lawrence Welsch, PhD.  Mike Rubinfeld is

  presently the Chair of the working group.  They are working in accordance

  with a Project Authorization Request (PAR) for the development of a CD-ROM

  architecture profile that hopefully will be made into an international

  standard.  The PAR was approved by the Standards Activity Board (SAB) of

  the IEEE/CS last June and the Architecture Profile will probably be ready

  for balloting by August, 1993.



  For more information, contact:



  Mike Rubinfeld

  NIST

  Bldg. 225, MS:B266

  Gaithersburg, MD  20899

  (301) 975-3064

  Email: miker@mml.ncsl.nist.gov

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