Dear Don and All,
I was looking for guidance on how metric policy documents were written
when I came across this (rather mixed bag) of references and thought
that they might be useful to you.
Metric policy documents
USA NIST – 1992
http://ts.nist.gov/WeightsAndMeasures/Metric/4855.cfm
IEEE – 2006
http://standards.ieee.org/announcements/metric.html
http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/whatis/policies/p9-16.html
USA NASA – 1999
http://www.space.com/news/metric_policy_100199.html
USA Underwriters Laboratories Inc. – 2001
http://ulstandardsinfonet.ul.com/generalinformation/ul_metric_policy_manual.html
USA Department of the Interior – 1991
http://elips.doi.gov/app_dm/act_getfiles.cfm?relnum=2928
SNAP Metric Policy Implementation Plan – 2005
Use Google search for document
USA 15 C.F.R. PART 1170—METRIC CONVERSION POLICY FOR FEDERAL AGENCIES
http://law.justia.com/us/cfr/title15/15-3.1.3.7.3.html
United States Department of Agriculture – 2002
http://www.afm.ars.usda.gov/ppweb/PDF/242-6-ARS.pdf
USA Army Corps of Engineers - 1998
http://www.hnd.usace.army.mil/techinfo/eirs/9803eirs.pdf and search
for the word, metric.
Department of Veterans Affairs – 2000
http://www1.va.gov/vapubs/viewPublication.asp?Pub_ID=74&FType=2
USA Department of the Treasury – 1991
http://ustreas.gov/regs/td75-05.htm
USA Fish and Wildlife Services – 1995
http://www.fws.gov/policy/860fw1.html
USA Department of Labor OSHA – 1991
http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_id=1711&p_table=DIRECTIVES
The dates are intriguing as is the idea that so many people kept
duplicating the effort in different places.
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