SMPTE AG 03
Administrative Guideline

Permitted Normative References

Approved: 2024-06-12

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Table of contents🔗

  1. Foreword
  2. 1 Scope
  3. 2 Conformance
  4. 3 Normative references
  5. 4 Terms and definitions
  6. 5 Approved List
  7. 6 Example of how to propose a new normative reference organization and/or document type

Foreword🔗

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) is an internationally-recognized standards developing organization. Headquartered and incorporated in the United States of America, SMPTE has members in over 80 countries on six continents. SMPTE’s Engineering Documents, including Standards, Recommended Practices, and Engineering Guidelines, are prepared by SMPTE’s Technology Committees. Participation in these Committees is open to all with a bona fide interest in their work. SMPTE cooperates closely with other standards-developing organizations, including ISO, IEC and ITU. SMPTE Engineering Documents are drafted in accordance with the rules given in its Standards Operations Manual. For more information, please visit www.smpte.org.

This Standards Administrative Guideline forms an adjunct to the use and interpretation of the SMPTE Standards Operations Manual. In the event of a conflict, the Operations Manual shall prevail.

1 Scope🔗

This Administrative Guideline lists the organizations and document types approved for normative references in SMPTE Engineering documents (see SMPTE Standards Operations Manual, Section 10, "Normative References"). Other organizations and/or document types can be used by permission of the Standards Committee as specified in the SMPTE Standards Operations Manual.

2 Conformance🔗

The following keywords have a specific meaning in the context of this document:

3 Normative references🔗

The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.

4 Terms and definitions🔗

No terms and definitions are listed in this document.

5 Approved List🔗

Table 1 is the Approved List of Organizations and their respective Document Types.

Table 1 –⁠ Approved List
Organization Document Types
Audio Engineering Society (AES) Standard
American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Standard
Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) Standard, Recommended Practice
Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) Standard
European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) EN
European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA) Standard
Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA) Standard, IS
European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) EN, ES, TS, TR
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) CFR
International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Standard
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Standard
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) RFC, STD, BCP
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Standard, TS
International Telecommunications Union – Development (ITU-D) Recommendation
International Telecommunications Union – Radiocommunication (ITU-R) Recommendation
International Telecommunications Union – Telecom (ITUT) Recommendation
National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) FIPS, NBS
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) Standard
Object Management Group (OMG) Adopted Specification
Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) Standard
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) Standard, Recommended Practice
Unicode Consortium (UNICODE) Standard
USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) Specification
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Recommendation

NOTE —⁠ Where appropriate, for Organizations that publish Amendments and/or Corrigenda, a reference may be of the form “Organization XXX, Document YYY, including Amendment #1 and Amendment #3”

6 Example of how to propose a new normative reference organization and/or document type🔗

From: ST Member
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 12:18 PM
To: st@lists.smpte.org
Subject: OMG

I have reviewed the materials on the OMG website for open membership, due process document
development and patent policy not unlike SMPTE. I believe they are consistent with the
requirements in our OMs for a normative reference, and I recommend we add “OMG Adopted
Specifications” to our list of approved normative references (AG-03).

For more details, the materials are publicly available here:

Organization Overview:
http://www.omg.org/gettingstarted/gettingstartedindex.htm

Membership Requirements:
http://www.omg.org/memberservices/index.htm

Operational Processes:
http://www.omg.org/gettingstarted/processintro.htm

Patent Policy:
http://doc.omg.org/ipr

The UML 2.2 spec (why we’re doing this):
http://www.omg.org/spec/UML/2.2/Infrastructure/PDF/

Note that the UML citation from SMPTE should be like any other reference citation, e.g.: “OMG
Unified Modeling Language (OMG UML), Infrastructure, Version 2.2, February 2009”.

As in any reference citation, a web link is useful but not required.