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In article <C12A4H.7GB@optimla.aimla.com> ken@optimla.aimla.com (Ken Ellinwood) writes:

>   Roger Packwood wonders what the correct document number for the ISO MPEG
>   spec is.  Lets see here ... the first page says:
>
>   ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 N 147
>   Date: 1992 April 20
>
>   I believe the document number is SC 29 N 147.  Hope this helps.

SC 29 N 147 isn't the document number. SC 29 is the subcommittee and... I
really have no idea what N 147 is (sorry). But the document number is
definitely ISO/IEC CD 11172-1. The reason that Roger did not find this
in his catalog is that this document is currently in Committee Draft
stage (that's the _CD_ in the document number). I think that once a document
hits CD, you can only buy it through ANSI or ISO (or become an active member
of the committee ;-). When it is a standard, it will be referred to as
IS11172:199x, where 199x is the year that it became an ISO Information
Standard.

Whew!

BTW: I have nothing to do with MPEG, but it is referenced in another
ISO document that I happened to have on my desk.

Frank

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