With the best wishes
to each and all in the
TC3 community
for a successful
2005

/Per-Åke Svensson

IEC 60617 in database form now complete

The validation of the last change requests for inclusion of the symbols of IEC 60617-12 and –13, ended last Friday, and all the symbols of these parts have now been released in the database. This means that the former IEC 60617 in printed form has now been completely replaced by the database. This will be officially announced later this month and the two printed parts formally withdrawn.

/Per-Åke Svensson

Many new documents for the Eindhoven meeting

A revised draft agenda and together with many new documents, mainly reports, are now available.

The documents existing today will be included in a “TC3 meeting folder” for the meeting, shortly available among the Working documents.

Additional documents with official numbers as well as green meeting documents will be released until the week before the meeting. Please check the “Meeting documents” page for the latest update.

The documents of interest for the meeting, and not included in the TC3 folder” will also be posted in the e-tech forum for TC3: TC3 fora > TC3 Eindhoven 2004.

/Per-Åke Svensson

IEC 82045-2 Document management, part 2 as FDIS

Document 3/712/FDIS IEC 82045-2 Ed. 1: Document management - Part 2: Metadata elements and information reference model, is now released for voting, with a closing date 5th November.

/Per-Åke Svensson

10 years on the Web for TC3!

IEC TC3 can this year celebrate the use of the TC3 Web site for 10 years. The web site came into use during 1994 and was first hosted at Chiba University in Japan. After the setting up of the required facilities at IEC Central Office in Geneva it was moved to the location where it presently resides in the end of 1997.

This use of the web was early, taking into account that the first Web browser (Mosaic) had become available in the fall 1993.

The early use of the web by TC3 did to a very high degree depend on Professor Hiroaki Ikeda at the Chiba University in Japan, who could offer facilities for the site at the university, and was personally very much involved in the management of the site. As Secretary I noted with surprise that whenever during the day (or night) I e-mailed updated web pages to him to be placed on the site - I could not access directly at that time -, they were there and active in just a few minutes.

The report from the TC3 plenary meeting in Makuhari, Japan, in 1995-05-25 (see RM 3758) tells, under item 19:

The WWW server at Chiba University holds presently IEC information relevant to IEC/TC3, i.a. about the organization and a graphical database for retrieval of symbols according to IEC 417.

e-mail (over Internet) had been used by enthusiasts from 1990, and 1995 an e-mail exploder was set up, according to the same report:

The Japanese National Committee offers to set up an e-mail exploder for use in the work of TC3 with SCs. The exploder will be in action directly after the meeting.

This was gratefully accepted by the Committee. 11 -12 persons are presently able to access email and the number is expected to increase rapidly.

The CO should be directed to promote e-mail, but we must run the normal procedure in parallel. Give a strong recommendation that members in this committee adopt e-mail.

Decision: The setting up of the e-mail exploder and our recommendation to use e-mail should be mentioned in the Report to the CA.

Because of this decision, the officers and many delegates of TC3 were very early users of e-mail, which has improved communication considerably.

Does anybody remember how we managed to get things done before 1994?

/Per-Åke Svensson

Validity of the database standards IEC 60417 and IEC 60617

Information on in which countries the database standards for IEC 60417 and IEC 60617 are referenced as National Standards has now been included on the entry page to the databases.

Is your country still missing in the list? Then contact your National Committee for information.

/Per-Åke Svensson

Reports from the Co-ordination meetings in London

Reports from the TC3 co-ordination meeting 2004-05-10  and from the IEC/TC3-ISO/TC10 co-ordination meeting 2004-05-11 are now available as meeting documents.

/Per-Åke Svensson

Schedule for the meetings in Eindhoven

The next plenary meetings of TC3, SC3C and SC3D, and of the 3D/WG2 to take place on the premises of the Philips Campus  in Eindhoven, Netherlands, during 27th September to 1st October 2004, have been scheduled as follows.

Meetings of TC3 in 2004

The next plenary meetings of TC3 and its sub-committees SC3C and SC3D will take place on the premises of the Philips Campus  in Eindhoven, Netherlands, during 27th September to 1st October.

The schedule is tentatively similar to that of the Montreal meetings, i.e. the TC3 workshop and plenary meeting is to be held on Thursday and Friday, and the SC and WG meetings earlier during the week. 

The TC3 co-ordination meeting for the officers will take place on May 10th at BSI in London. 

It will be followed by an IEC/TC3 – ISO/TC10 officers co-ordination meeting on May 11th. (ISO/TC10 will have further meetings during the rest of the week at the same place.)   

/Per-Åke Svensson

CDV on Material declarations

Document 3/707/CDV Procedure for declaration of materials in products of the electrotechnical and electronics industry (DIN 19220), is now circulated as a TC3 document, in accordance with the fast track procedure. It is of importance to many product committees. The circulation is the result of a discussion in ACEA . For further information please refer to AC4/2004. The document is open to all technical committees.  

/Per-Åke Svensson

New Copyright statement for database standards

Further to recommendation of the SPC, the copyright clause in IEC’s Sales Policy regarding Standards in Database Format has been updated to allow end-users to use the content of the database standards under certain conditions without the need to seek written approval from the IEC on a case-by-case basis. This updated policy applies to all current and future IEC Standards Database Formats.

For further information, please refer to AC 3/2004.

/Per-Åke Svensson

Acceptance of documents

2 months have now passed following the circulation of the documents:

3/702/RM Unconfirmed minutes from the meeting of TC3 2003-10-16/17 without objections. This document is therefore considered as confirmed.

3/703/MCR maintenance cycle report on IEC 62079 Preparation of instructions – Structuring, content and presentation. The proposal to extend the validity of the publication IEC 62079 (Ed. 1 2001-02) until 2009 (with a review date 2007) has therefore been accepted.

Likewise have the following documents earlier been accepted:

3/681/MCR Maintenance cycle report on IEC 62023: Structuring of technical information and documentation. The proposal to extend the validity of the publication IEC 62023 (Ed. 1 2000-04) until 2009 with a review date 2007) has therefore been accepted.

3/682/MCR Maintenance cycle report on IEC 62027: Preparation of parts lists. The proposal to extend the validity of the publication IEC 62027 (Ed. 1 2000-04) until 2009 (with a review date 2007) has therefore been accepted.

/Per-Åke Svensson