[LINK] 171 Australian ICT Standards to be Withdrawn

[Tom Worthington]

Standards Australia is planning to withdraw Australian Standards 
which are more than 10 years old: 
<http://www.standards.org.au/cat.asp?catid=135>.

The list of standards to be withdrawn is a bit difficult to read, as 
they are grouped in batches by date inspected. I have extracted the 
171 ICT standards from the list and sorted them by name: 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2006/08/australian-ict-standards-to-be.html>.

Some of the standards are a trip down memory lane (pun intended), 
such as "Dimensions and location of rectangular punched holes in 80 
column punched paper cards" (AS 1245-1972).

Others bring back painful memories of technology which seemed like a 
good idea at the time, such as the GOSIP/OSI series "Open Systems 
Interconnection - Connection oriented presentation protocol 
specification" (AS 3616-1989).

Some may still have some use, such as the EDI ones: "Message-oriented 
text interchange systems Electronic data interchange messaging 
service" (AS 4033.8-1998).

Also the Productivity Commission has released a study into the 
Australian Government's relationship with Standards Australia 
<http://www.pc.gov.au/study/standards/>.

ps: I represent the Australian Computer Society on the Council of 
Standards Australia. ACS members can comment to SA on the standards 
withdraw via ACS. Of course everyone is free to comment direct to SA.



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