ISO/IEC INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 9973 Third edition 2013-07-15 Information technology Computer graphics, image processing and environmental data representation Procedures for registration of items Technologies de I'information Infographie, traitement de I'image etreprésentationdesdonnéesenvironnementalesProcedurespour I'enregistrement des articles Reference number IS0/IEC9973:2013(E) IEC ISO @IS0/IEC2013 IS0/IEC9973:2013(E) COPYRIGHTPROTECTEDDOCUMENT @IS0/IEC2013 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized otherwise in any form or byanymeans,electronic ormechanical, including photocopying,orposting on the internet oran intranet, without prior written permission. Permission can be requested from either ISO at the address below or ISO's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Case postale 56 · CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail [email protected] Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland ii @ ISO/IEC 2013- All rights reserved IS0/IEC9973:2013(E) Contents Page Foreword iv Introduction V 1 Scope. 1 2 Normative references 1 3 Terms and definitions 1 4 Concepts 2 4.1 Overview 2 4.2 Registration authority 3 4.3 Sponsoring authorities 3 4.4 Items 4 4.5 Sections 4 4.6 Registration process 4 4.7 Proposal guidelines and forms. 4 4.8 New orrevised International Standards 4 5 InternationalRegisterofItems 5 5.1 Availabilityof the International Register of Items 5 5.2 Responsibilities oftheregistration authority 5 5.3 Recipients ofactivity notices 7 5.4 Addition of classes 7 5.5 Addition of items. 7 5.6 Modification/clarification 7 5.7 Conversionofregistered itemstostandardizeditems 8 5.8 Deprecation 8' AnnexA (normative) Informationneededto submitproposals .9 AnnexB (informative)Exampleforms forproposalsto register items .10 AnnexC(informative)Languagebindingguidelines .24 AnnexD (informative)Encodingguidelines .26 Bibliography .29 IS0/IEC2013-Allrightsreserved iii