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FINREAD was placed on the International Organisation
for Standardisation's (ISO) agenda last September.
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The FINREAD specifications are continuing to make headway towards
international standardisation. In May 2001, the CEN (European Committee
for Standardisation) approved the FINREAD specifications in the form
of a CWA (CEN Workshop Agreement), and has since done the same for
Embedded FINREAD in September 2003. The FINREAD partners then submitted
these specifications to ISO (International Organisation for Standardisation)
and its 146 member countries, with the aim of getting FINREAD
adopted as an international standard.
The first stage in this procedure was successfully completed in early
September 2004 when ISO placed FINREAD on the agenda of one of its
committees (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC17) following a positive vote by 20 of
the countries out of the relevant committee's 31 members. Seven
countries (China, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore and
South Africa) will take part in the standardisation work scheduled
to commence very shortly. This standardisation work should ultimately
lead to FINREAD's adoption as an international standard (IS), and
the recognition of these specifications by all stakeholders at the
global level. Watch this space!
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