Such built-in flexibility benefits both the information creator and user. It enables staff to publish documents quickly in multiple formats to meet a growing and diverse customer need for timely standards information. At the current time, the IEEE Standards activity has nearly 400 working groups collaboratively developing, reviewing, and revising standards projects. These groups vary in size from four to 200 or more participants who come from around the globe and represent a diverse group in terms of equipment and needs. Eventually, working groups will be able to search a rich body of technical information to identify related material, status, contacts, and other administrative information.
Access is via modem and direct Internet connections to serve the widest possible user groups.
Have your chairperson or liaison call your group's staff liaison today to request a SPAsystem Request for Services form so that you can begin to fit the SPAsystem into your standards future. Now that many electronic technologies are available to make electronic distribution of documents possible, many IEEE working groups have expressed a desire to post their drafts on-line to facilitate draft development. Indeed, some groups have already done so, while others are waiting to post their standards on the Standards server via the SPAsystem. In response, Standards has established a procedure that allows working groups to post their drafts on either the SPAsystem or other ftp sites. The liaison will provide a request for services form that the working group will submit to the SPAsystem staff.