While the NQA-1 Standard can stand alone on its own merits as the definitive Quality Assurance standard, its use is promulgated principally through endorsement and adoption by others. Recognizing that the 1997 Edition of NQA-1 was a significant change in the format and arrangement, most of the recent effort of the Committee has gone into engaging stakeholders and the major parties for endorsement. The resulting list of differences is being used by the Committee as an input to planning for future addenda and will help those responsible for endorsement decide how to qualify endorsement. III, so that QA requirements for all NCS can be found in a single NQA-1 edition. The target for completion of this task is Spring of 2001.
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