Dear all,
Gene has raised a good point. Volunteers should NOT come forward
expecting to get a fistful of "goodies". In an ideal these would be
free, as would all standards. However, costs accrue and must be paid by
the users of standards.
The list of standards that I provided (quoted below) are copyrighted
standards sold by IEEE. The intent is for companies to buy copies for
their employees or for employees to purchase them as professional
references.
SI 10 is a bit more complicated because the copyright is held jointly
with ASTM. We have been trying for some time to no avail to get SI 10
released in PDF form to the public for free download. I will CERTAINLY
let you know if and when that occurs!
Volunteer members of SCC 14 are given PDF copies of standards on an
as-needed basis. For example, if we are working on revising Std 1541
they are given a copy to review, with the understanding that they will
not "pass it along". If they were to do so, they would be liable to
lawsuit. Since SI 10 is our seminal standard, all members of our
committee have been sent a copy of that in PDF form. Reviewers of IEEE
standards certainly need that to do their review work. Once standards
have been revised, participants might have red-lined versions in their
possession but they will not necessarily be given "smooth" copies of the
newly revised standards -- until it is once again time to revise them.
I've scouted the online prices for SI 10-2002, which should be revised
within this next year. My results:
-- ANSI Standards Store:
http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=SI10-2002
$74 (PDF?)
-- ASTM
http://www.astm.org/Standards/SI10.htm
$65 (paper or PDF)
-- IEEE
https://sbwsweb.ieee.org/ecustomercme_enu/start.swe?SWECmd=GotoView&src=0&Join=n&SWEView=Catalog+View+%28eSales%29_Main_JournalMags_IEEE&WT.mc_id=u_shop&mem_type=Customer&HideNew=N&SWEHo=sbwsweb.ieee.org&SWETS=1272052842
$57 non-member, $45 IEEE-member (print on demand or PDF)
Those who can wait might wish to do so until the 2010 (or 2011) version
of SI 10 is released. Or, perhaps by then we can get this made available
for free. My crystal ball is cloudy on the latter point.
Jim
[email protected] wrote:
Jim,
...
You list an impressive group of standards documents which are intended (I
assume) to guide Metric Volunteers.
Most of these documents are for sale (some quite expensive).
Is a set of these documents available *free of charge* to each Metric Volunteer?
* IEEE Standard Letter Symbols for Units of Measurement (SI
Customary Inch-Pound Units, and Certain Other Units), IEEE Std
260.1-2004 (reaffirmed in 2010)
* American National Standard Mathematical Signs and Symbols for Use
in Physical Sciences and Technology, IEEE Std 260.3-1993 (reaffirmed 2006)
* American National Standard Letter Symbols and Abbreviations for
Quantities Used in Acoustics, IEEE Std 260.4-1996 (reaffirmed 2006)
* IEEE Standard Definitions for Selected Quantities, Units, and
Related Terms, with Special Attention to the International System of
Units (SI), IEEE Std 270-2006
* IEEE Standard Letter Symbols for Quantities Used in Electrical
Science and Electrical Engineering, IEEE Std 280-1982 (extended pending
development of proposed standard 80000)
* IEEE Recommended Practice for Preferred Metric Units for Use in
Electrical and Electronics Science and Technology, IEEE Std 945-1984
* IEEE Standard for Prefixes for Binary Multiples, IEEE Std
1541-2002 (reaffirmed 2008)
* Standard for Quantities and Units, P80000 (in development)
* IEEE/ASTM Standard for Use of the International System of Units
(SI): The Modern Metric System, IEEE/ASTM SI 10-2002 (revision in progress)
...
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