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q. Stakeholder Assembly Consensus Draft Standard (SACDS) – Draft of the standard on which consensus has been demonstrated by the broader stakeholder assembly and community, confirming acceptability, utility, and harmonization. The document is not approved as a standard, but this document represents the fourth r. Standard – Common and repeated use of rules, conditions, guidelines or characteristics for products or related processes and production methods, and related management systems practices. Examples of standards include: definition of terms; classification of components; delineation of procedures; specification of dimensions, materials, performance, designs, or operations; measurement of quality and quantity in describing materials, processes, products, systems, services, or practices; test methods and sampling s. Transparency – Advance public notification of proposed standards activities where the scope of work is identified along with conditions for participation and provide an opportunity for all interested parties to comment prior to final approval and adoption (Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Executive Office of t. US Office of Management and Budget (US OMB) Circular A‐119 – US Executive Branch policies for federal participation in the development of voluntary consensus standards and in conformity assessment. The circular encourages federal agencies to benefit from the expertise of the private sector. It promotes federal agency participation in such bodies to ensure creation of standards that are useable by federal agencies with a goal of trying to reduce reliance on government ‐ unique standards where an existing voluntary consensus u. Voluntary Consensus Standard – A standard developed or adopted by voluntary consensus standards bodies, both domestic and international. The standards include provisions for intellectual property owners to agreed to make that intellectual property available on a non ‐ discriminatory, royalty ‐ free or on a reasonable royalty basis to all interested parties. A voluntary consensus standard can be a technical standard developed by voluntary consensus standard bodies (Office of Management and Budget (OMB) v. Voting on Standards – Processes by which the working groups, broad stakeholder community, and the OMB reach consensus leading to standards approval (AOAC). Two ‐ thirds vote in favor of a motion will demonstrate consensus on a draft standard or approve an AOAC standard. Voting may take place during in DRAFT stage of the development of the standard. procedures; or descriptions of fit and measurements of size or strength. the President, 2016). standard would suffice (US OMB Circular A ‐ 119). Executive Office of the President, 2016).

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person meeting, electronic ballot, or a combination on a case by case basis.

w. Working Group – diverse and balanced subset of stakeholders with expertise related to the assigned scope

of work. Working groups develop draft standards documents for consensus.

x. Working Group Draft Standard (WGDS) – draft of the standard on which the working group has demonstrated consensus and is ready to be posted for public comments. The WGDS represents the second

stage of the document.

y. Working Group Draft Standard – Revisions (WGDS‐R) – revised version of the working group draft standard that includes consideration of public comments received and reconciled. The working group has demonstrated consensus. The WGDS ‐ R represents the third stage of the document and it is ready for the

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