The key stage in the development of an ISO Standard is the DIS (Draft
International Standard) stage. A DIS is the end result of the work
produced by a Working Group and approved by a Technical Committee. A
document in the DIS stage is more than 95% technically accurate. A DIS
goes out for a five-month approval vote by all 89 voting nations of ISO.
Any suggested changes offered as a result of this voting process must
be addressed by the Technical Committee and may be incorporated or
rejected.
The newly modified DIS is sent to the voting nations as
an FDIS (Final Draft International Standard) for a final approval vote
(yes or no). Approval of the FDIS automatically instructs ISO to issue
the document as a formal ISO Standard within 60 days of FDIS approval.
It
should be noted that DIS and FDIS documents may be used as trade
references per agreement between a buyer and a seller. It should also be
noted that the European community, through cooperation between CEN
(European Committee for Standardization) and ISO/TC 209, has been
developing companion CEN Standards on cleanrooms. The new ISO Standards
replace the CEN Standards as soon as ISO Standards are formally
published. In addition, six months after the formal publication of an
ISO Standard, European nations’ national standards on the same criteria
are made obsolete or rescinded.
With the formal publication of
ISO 14644, Parts 1 and 2, the U.S. Federal Standard 209E, Airborne
Particulate Cleanliness Classes in Cleanrooms and Clean Zones, became
both redundant and obsolete. As official technical caretaker of
FED-STD-209E, IEST recommended cancellation of FED-STD-209E to the U.S.
Government (GSA). The document was canceled in November 2001.
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