General introduction
This "living" comprehensive document is regularly updated, based upon information collected from documents and reports from the Sub Committees and Working Groups.
The permanent document number ISO/TC 8 N 1000 will be retained, also for future revisions of this document (to be indicated by R1, R2 etc.).
The current version of this document is Appendix 1 "Work programme details" to the ISO/TC 8 Business Plan.
Scope, structure and programme of work of ISO/TC 8 and subcommittees
This part of the document contains the scopes and structure of ISO/TC 8 and its ten subcommittees, as well as the allocation of existing standards and (proposed) work items to these SC's and WG's.
A distinction is made between "Registered Work Items" that are formally approved and registered in the program of work of ISO and "Proposals". These Proposals can range from just suggestions that some item could be worthwhile studying (Preliminary stage) up to items for which a Proposal for a new project is under review (Proposal Stage).
For ease of reference all items have been given an internal ISO/TC8 work item number e.g. [01.01], indicating the SC and a two digit reference number.
Annex D gives some statistical information on the number of work items assigned to each ISO/TC 8 subcommittee.
Work items of mutual interest to IMO and ISO/TC8
Several work items are regarded to be of mutual interest to ISO/TC 8 and the International Maritime Organization IMO. These items are either requested by IMO or are initiated by ISO/TC 8 itself. These items are indicated by an IMO-link-NR The IMO-link-NR. refers to the list in Annex A of this document.
The relevant IMO bodies and Resolutions or other documents are given in Annex B.
Further indexes and tables
Annex C is an index on ISO standard numbers and refers to the internal ISO/TC 8 work item number and the IMO-link-NR.
Annex E shows the assignment of IMO-link-NR's to the different ISO/TC 8 and IMO bodies, thus indicating the major fields of common interest.
World Wide Web
An electronic version of this document is to be found on site
http://isotc.iso.ch/livelink/livelink (under testing)
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-m/nmc/standards/tc8stat.htm
and will be updated regularly.
