Voluntary Industry Standards and Their Relationship to Government Programs

By Federal Aviation Administration

Book Id: WPLBN0000697702
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 440.61 KB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Voluntary Industry Standards and Their Relationship to Government Programs
Author:	Federal Aviation Administration
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Language:	English
Subject:	Aviation, Federal Aviation Administration Command Center (U.S.), Mechanical engineering.
Collections:	Space and Aviation eDocuments Collection
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Publisher:	Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)


Citation APA MLA Chicago Administration, F. A. (n.d.). Voluntary Industry Standards and Their Relationship to Government Programs. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Excerpt
Excerpt: The Office of Commercial Space Transportation (OCST), in developing its program for ensuring that commercial space operations adequately protect public safety and the environment, confronts the challenge of devising an effective means for accomplishing this objective while simultaneously nurturing a healthy and internationally competitive commercial space industry. In meeting this challenge, OCST has emphasized flexibility and the use of innovative approaches, rather than simply relying on the traditional command-and-control regulatory strategy that characterizes many Federal regulatory programs in the health, safety, and environmental arenas.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents Section Page 1. INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Potential Relationship of Voluntary Industry Standards to Commercial Space Regulatory Regime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Extent of Standardization in Commercial Space Launch Industry . . . . . . . . . 1 OCST Undertakes Study of Voluntary Standardization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 What OCST Learned From Its Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Next Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Organization of this Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2. WHAT ARE VOLUNTARY INDUSTRY STANDARDS AND HOW DO THEY WORK? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 The Importance of Standardization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Defining Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 The Benefits/Problems Associated With Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 The Standards Development Process in the U.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 International Standardization Activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Relationship of Voluntary Industry Standards to Government Programs . . . . 14 Economic Aspects of Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 3. COMPARISON OF SELECTED INDUSTRY STANDARDIZATION PROGRAMS . . . 17 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Common Aspects of Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Significant Differences Among Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 RESEARCH CONTACTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 APPENDIX: ANALYSIS OF SPECIFIC INDUSTRY STANDARDS PROGRAMS . . . . . . . . . A-1