> I am specially looking for the actual issue of TIA/EIA-592 > and TIA/EIA-578.
TIA does not put its standards on the WEB site, but sells them. The sale of succesful standards, the ones that are used (as opposed to all those that are printed and never used) is the main source of funding for sustaining the TIA standards activities. (Meeting rooms in hotels, reproduction of proposals, staff travel, keeping alive the infrastructure (making sure that all development methods are in accord with the "open" requirements imposed by ANSI) and for that matter, making financial contribution to ANSI, the accreditation organization, all costs money.) Take that away and other ways of financing all this stufff will need to be developed. The TIA standards publishing has been sublet to "Global Engineering Documents" a member of the IHS Group. Global produces a catalogue of the EIA and TIA standards. By the way the two standards you refer to are developed by TR-29, what used to be called the FAX committee. Subcommittee TR29.2 is responsible for these two DCE control standards. For historians, it is ANSI/EIA/TIA 578A (incorporating TSB-43) and ANSI/TIA/EIA 593 The appelation ANSI means that the standard has gone through the process of obtaining approval as and American National Standard. Whether a standard appear as TIA/EIA or EIA/TIA depends on whether the original project was started when TIA was still a part of EIA. If work started under the EIA banner, the standard carries the EIA up front. It mainly makes a difference about how the financial pie will be split between TIA and EIA, if the standard is succesful. Note, that there are a number of TIA, EIA and combination thereof publications, that never went through the ANSI approval procedure in the past. All the "IS" documents, (stands for Interim Standard) have not gone through either the ANSI approval process, or the full EIA/TIA approval process (as a standard). A number of them have become so succesful that they are a defacto global standard without all the blessings needed (I am thinking of the AMPS standard). Ciao, Vic GLOBAL ENGINEERING DOCUMENTS 15 Inverness Way East Englewood, CO, 80112 USA Phone: 1-800-624-3974 or for Karl-Heinz Global Info Centre Roentgenstrasse 5 D-82152, Planegg (Martinsried) Germany Phone: 089-859 9041
