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SMPTE
(the
The
Society
of
Motion
Picture
and
Television
Engineers)
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.
This Administrative Guideline shows in flowcharts, the various workflows that are used to complete work items (Projects) in the Standards Community (SC).
Normative
text
is
text
that
describes
elements
of
the
design
that
are
indispensable
or
contains
the
conformance
language
keywords:
"shall",
"should",
or
"may".
Informative
text
is
text
that
is
potentially
helpful
to
the
user,
but
not
indispensable,
and
can
be
removed,
changed,
or
added
editorially
without
affecting
interoperability.
Informative
text
does
not
contain
any
conformance
keywords.
All
text
in
this
document
is,
by
default,
normative,
except:
the
Introduction,
any
section
explicitly
labeled
as
"Informative"
or
individual
paragraphs
that
start
with
"Note:"
The
following
keywords
"shall"
and
"shall
not"
indicate
requirements
strictly
to
be
followed
have
a
specific
meaning
in
order
to
conform
to
the
document
context
of
this
document:
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.
No terms and definitions are listed in this document.
This Administrative Guideline shows in flowcharts, the various workflows that are used to complete work items (Projects) in the Standards Community (SC). Most of this work takes place at the Drafting Group (DG) level with balloting of the documents at the Technical Committee (TC). As you can see we use acronyms to abbreviate names to save space on the Flowcharts. Two keys are given on each flow chart to expose the full name of the acronyms.
This work is broken into five workflow flowcharts.
Figure 1 flowchart shows the Project approval process and the Subgroup hierarchy. See SMPTE Standards Operations Manual , Section 6.3 and 7.3.1 to 7.3.3.
Figure 2 flowchart shows the process for creating Standards (ST), Recommended Practices (RP) or Engineering Guidelines (EG). See SMPTE Standards Operations Manual , Sections 6.4 to 6.11.
Figure 3 flowchart shows the process for a Registered Disclosure Document (RDD). See SMPTE Standards Operations Manual , Sections 7.3.4 to 7.3.6.
Figure 4 flowchart shows the process for Administrative Guidelines (AG), Advisory Notes (AN) and Engineering Reports (ER). See SMPTE Standards Operations Manual , Section 5.4.
Figure 5 flowchart shows the process for reviewing documents. See SMPTE Standards Operations Manual , Sections 6.12, 6.14, and 6.15.
