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The American National Standards Institute is a nonprofit, privately funded membership organization that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards and is the U.S. member body to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) via the United States National Committee (USNC).
ANSI does not itself develop American National Standards. Instead, ANSI facilitates the development of American National Standards (ANS) by accrediting the procedures of standards developing organizations (SDOs) and approving their documents as American National Standards (ANS). This process serves and protects the public interest since standards developers accredited by ANSI – and the ANS they develop – must meet the Institute’s requirements for openness, balance, consensus, and due process and adhere to ANSI’s neutral oversight, assuring that all interested parties have an opportunity to participate in a standard’s development.
Want to understand how SPRI Standards are developed and approved as American National Standards? Take a look at the example below.
- A SPRI Task Force creates a document which is reviewed and approved by the SPRI Technical Committee and Board of Directors.
- The SPRI-approved document is then submitted for industry approval through the ANSI-approved SPRI canvass process.
- A pre-canvass list identifying those that are potentially interested in and affected by the proposed standard is compiled by a SPRI Task Force. Areas of interest are defined to accommodate the document being canvassed.
- A pre-canvass survey is done soliciting participation.
- A press release is issued announcing the intent to canvass inviting participation from those not originally identified by the SPRI Task Force.
- ANSI announces canvass in Standards Action.
- Canvass begins:
- The proposed standard is distributed to interested canvass list for a vote on approval.
- Negative ballots are reviewed by Task Force members.
- Volunteer leader/Task Force responds in writing to all negatives.
- Substantial changes to the proposed standard require recirculation to the complete canvass list.
- Canvass participants must be advised of their right to appeal.
- If any negatives cannot be resolved, the document, the negative ballot and all correspondence must be circulated to the complete canvass list for reconsideration. Any participant can change their vote.
- Once balloting has closed, the necessary paperwork and ballot results are submitted to ANSI.
