STANDARDS

STANDARDS

æ Something established (ketentuan) for use as a rule or

æ Basis of comparasion in measuring or

æ Judging capacity, quantity, content, extent, value, quality. Etc.

æ Other types of documents which are considered to be standards are :

Ñ Procedures

Ñ Recommended practices

Ñ Groups of graphic symbols

Ñ Clssifications

Ñ Definitions of terms

æ Some of these considerd to be mandatory

Ñ The information is an absolute requirement

Ñ Adoption of a law or regulation

Ñ “Shall” and “Will” their requirements are not a metter of choice.

Ñ Codes are examples of mandatory standards because they have legal status

æ Some of these considerd to be non-mandatory

Ñ Nonmandatory standard would be a recommended practice, because it may provide alternative ways in which objectives can be accomplisehed.

Ñ Words “Should” and “Could”

Ñ The implication here is that the information has been put forth to serve as a guidelines for someone to perform particular task. However, it dosen’t mean that something is rejectable just because it fails to comply with that guidline.

National standards are the result of an elaborate voting and review procedure overseen by American National Standards Institute (ANSI)