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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).
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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.
