1. Scope
1.1 Objectives
This Guideline provides an overview of key environmental considerations and a
method of defining the scope of the environmental design process. It outlines
that there is a need for designers to evaluate the total life cycle of a
product through utilizing concepts such as life cycle approaches, risk
assessment, and other means. It also reviews the life cycle…
1. Scope
Environmentally Responsible Procurement (ERP) is a process whereby an
organization adjusts its purchasing behaviour to favour products, services and
activities that minimize adverse impacts on the environment.* An ERP can
improve an organization's image or reputation with customers, shareholders,
nongovernmental organizations and other stakeholders. An organization gains…
Information technology - Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) - Part 1:
System Application P...
The international community has decided to make this standard available only in
the English language version. It has been adopted as a National Standard of
Canada on this basis.
This National Standard of Canada is equivalent to International Standard
ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990 and IEEE Std. 1003.1-1990.
1.1 Scope
This part of ISO/IEC 9945 defines a standard operating system interface and…
Information technology - Text Communication - Message-Oriented Text Interchange
Systems (MOTIS) - P...
The international community has decided to make this standard available only in
the English language version. It has been adopted as a National Standard of
Canada on this basis.
This National Standard of Canada is equivalent to International Standard
ISO/IEC 10021-2:1990.
1 Scope
This part of ISO/IEC 10021 defines the overall architecture of the MHS and
serves as a technical…
Recognition of Conformity with Standards - Rules and Procedures
This document is intended to be used by firms wishing to obtain the BNQ recognition of conformity of their products with the relevant standards.
Recognition of conformity is available in three forms, namely certification of conformity, approval of components and attestation of cnformity, to a manufacturer who wishes to market a product which conforms to a relevant standard or to a part of a…
VMEbus - Microprocessor system bus for 1 byte to 4 byte data
Describes a high-performance backplane bus for use in microprocessor bases systems. This parallel bus supports single- and block-transfer cycles on a 32-bit non-multiplexed address and data highway. Transmission is governed by an asynchronous handshaken protocol. The bus allocation provides for multiprocessor architectures. This bus also supports inter-module interrupts for facilitating quick…
Information Technology - Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems - Protocol Comb...
This National Standard of Canada is equivalent to International Standard ISO/IEC 8880-1:1990.
1 Scope
This part of ISO/IEC 8880 specifies the protocol combinations to be used to
support the OSI Network Service defined in ISO 8348 and its Addendum 1. The
field of application of this part of ISO/IEC 8880 is that of the environments
defined in the other parts of ISO/IEC 8880. The field…
Information Technology - Open Systems Interconnection - The Directory - Part 1: Overview of Concepts...
This National Standard of Canada is equivalent to International Standard ISO/IEC 9594-1:1990.
1 Scope
1.1 The Directory provides the directory capabilities required by OSI applications, OSI management processes, other OSI layer entities, and telecommunications services. Among the capabilities which it provides are those of 'user-friendly naming', whereby objects can be referred…
Standard for Vapour Control Systems in Gasoline Distribution Networks
1.1 This standard defines equipment requirements, performance criteria,
operating and testing procedures for the implementation of Vapour Control
Systems (VCS) in gasoline distribution networks including terminals, bulk
plants, service stations and cargo tanks, commonly known as Stage I. (See
Figure I for schematic representation.)
1.1.1 This standard does not include vapour control…
General Introduction
One of the key requirements before organizations can exchange administrative, commercial and transport information between their computers, without manual intervention, is agreement on the content and structure of the information to be transmitted. In EDIFACT, this is achieved by developing United Nations Standard Electronic Messages (UNSM's), for both national and…