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Building Construction & Safety Code
“Architect’s Dream” / Thomas Code
The scope of NFPA 5000 Building Construction and Safety Code — a consensus title of ‘similar’ scope developed by the International Code Council* — is paraphrased below:
“…The Code addresses those construction, protection, and occupancy features necessary to minimize danger to life and property. The Code does not address features that solely affect economic loss to private property…”
Our interest in this title contributes to our goal of understanding a fully dimensioned best practice bibliography for the built environment in education communities. CLICK HERE for Free Access
The original University of Michigan standards advocacy enterprise began its engagement with this code with the inaugural edition in 2009, with special attention to the chapters listed below:
Chapter 17: Educational Occupancies
Chapter 18: Daycare Occupancies
Chapter 19: Health Care Occupancies
Chapter 51: Energy Systems
Chapter 52: Electrical Systems
A few Standards Michigan proposals track in the transcripts:
Educational and Day-Care Occupancies
Public consultation on the Second Draft closes March 28, 2023.
We maintain NFPA 5000 on the standing agenda of our Model Building Code colloquia when we examine it along with competitor titles; notably International Code Council titles (I-Codes). See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
Issue: [8-100]
Category: Architectural, Structural, Accessibility
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Joe DeRosier, Jack Janveja
*By comparison the scope statement in the International Building Code — Section 101 General — is paraphrased below:
“…The provisions of this code shall apply to the construction, alteration, relocation, enlargement, replacement, repair, equipment, use and occupancy, location, maintenance, removal and demolition of every building or structure or appurtenances connected or attached to such buildings or structures…”
Commercial Space Standardization
John Glenn, standing top right, looks at a model of the ship that took him to space with other astronauts from the Mercury space program in an undated photograph. (NASA/NASM)
April 7, 2021 Update:
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December, 7, 2020
As the coordinator of the U.S. private sector-led system of voluntary standardization, ANSI has been in discussions with commercial space industry stakeholders since the middle of last year. ANSI provides a neutral venue for broad and open discussion of standardization issues for emerging technologies and in national priority areas. Innovation typically leads innovation but standardization solutions can hasten market acceptance; lower cost, thus our interest.
ANSI posted a report on the status of its entry into this domain; linked below:
Commercial Space Industry Standardization Coordination Meeting Summary
ANSI has notified stakeholders that on December, 7, 2020 it will host informational meeting on Standardization and the Commercial Space Industry – Space Situational and Domain Awareness, Space Traffic Coordination and Management, and Orbital Debris Mitigation. The purpose of the virtual meeting is to raise awareness of relevant policy and standardization activity and to facilitate dialogue on coordination and participation in standards-setting.
For more information contact Jim McCabe, senior director, standards facilitation ([email protected]; 212-642-8921).
This project is not enough in our wheelhouse to do much more than pass the information along to education communities. This project offers a front row seat to aerospace engineering and international policy faculty and students. For obvious reasons; standardization in safety and sustainability concepts is a global undertaking.
October 26 update:
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) announced today that on December, 7, 2020 it will be holding an informational meeting on Standardization and the Commercial Space Industry – Space Situational and Domain Awareness, Space Traffic Coordination and Management, and Orbital Debris Mitigation. The purpose of the virtual meeting is to raise awareness of relevant policy and standardization activity and to facilitate dialogue on coordination and participation in standards-setting.
ANSI serves as administrator and coordinator of the U.S. private-sector system of voluntary standardization. The Institute has been in discussions with commercial space industry stakeholders for well over a year now. In January of 2020, ANSI convened a half-day meeting on commercial space industry standardization and subsequently issued a survey inviting feedback on priority areas, areas needing coordination or not being worked on, and topics that could be discussed at an ANSI meeting, thus leading to this event.
The December meeting will include government, industry, non-governmental, academic, and other perspectives on policy instruments, industry standards, and best practices. Agenda details and registration information will be announced soon. Contact: Jim McCabe, senior director, standards facilitation, ANSI ([email protected]; 212-642-8921).
October 16 update: American National Standards Institute (ANSI) seeks information on efforts by members of the standardization community to develop space cybersecurity standards, or any plans to develop such standards.
On September 4, 2020, the White House issued a Memorandum on Space Policy Directive-5—Cybersecurity Principles for Space Systems (SPD-5) calling on federal government departments and agencies to foster practices within government space operations and across the commercial space industry, including international partners, that protect space assets and their supporting infrastructure from cyber threats and ensure continuity of operations. The government is concerned with cybersecurity in all phases of space systems development and ensuring cybersecurity throughout their life-cycle. Space systems may include ground control networks, space vehicles, and user or mission networks. These may be government national security space systems, government civil space systems, or private space systems. Examples of space vehicles may include satellites, space stations, launch vehicles, launch vehicle upper stage components, and spacecraft. Please refer to SPD-5 for the full scope of the government’s cyber concerns.
The Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) is looking to support the development of space cyber standards relative to SPD-5 and to work in concert with any SDOs that are looking to develop standards so that there is congruence and mutually beneficial outcomes.
ANSI is looking for feedback from its members and constituents describing any efforts that organizations have taken to develop space cyber standards, or any plans to develop such standards. In addition, ANSI seeks contact information for those individuals leading these efforts. ANSI is making this request on behalf of the Space ISAC and The Aerospace Corporation and will share any responses with them and with others who respond.
Send information responsive to this request to the attention of: Jim McCabe, senior director, standards facilitation ([email protected]; 212-642-8921) by November 16, 2020.
Jim McCabe | Senior Director, Standards Facilitation | American National Standards Institute
25 West 43 Street, 4th Floor | New York, NY 10036 U.S.A. | www.ansi.org
[email protected] | Office: 1-212-642-8921 | https://www.linkedin.com/in/mccabejim/
September 15 update: The survey has closed but, at the very least, faculty and students will likely be enlightened by the summary above. We will keep this project on the standing agenda of our Mobility and Global teleconferences. We may find a block of time in 2021 to cover the action and opportunities in this domain.
As a member of ANSI, Standards Michigan encourages its clients to participate in a ANSI survey that will inform prospective standardization solutions and policy templates.
ANSI Survey — CLICK HERE TO START — Responses due May 15th
“A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery” | Joseph Wright (1766)
Service requirements for distance learning
Hans Christian Ørsted discovers electromagnetism / Københavns Universitet
We follow the uptake in international distance learning enterprises with particular interest in its technical foundation for quality and availability. International Telecommunication Union Recommendation F.742 provides the service description and the requirements for distance learning services. This Recommendation is intended to support the multimedia framework for distance learning services. From the project description:
“…Distance learning involves interactive and non-interactive multimedia communications between learners and learning resources located at two or more separate locations. The aims of learners who use distance learning services may be to get some degree certificates based on the degree standards, to get training given by employers, or to learn special knowledge independently. The distance learning services may be teaching-centred learning services that are similar to traditional face-to-face classroom learning, individual instruction, self-pacing learning, multi-role learning/team learning, etc.
In the course of distance learning, information may be required from remote databases containing the learning resources, or from live lectures. The material may be textual, aural, graphical, or video in nature and may be stored in a multimedia format. The information can be delivered in point-to-point configuration, point-to-multipoint or multipoint-to-multipoint configuration. Participants in the distance learning may be located in classrooms equipped with related facilities, offices, homes or other places, such as on trains, where they are able to access to a distance learning services platform. Learners may learn in real-time with or without interaction with others, following a curriculum schedule or in non-real-time by themselves on demand. The equipment that learners use may be a PC, PDA, mobile phone, or even a TV set with STU. Learners can change their equipment without interruption while they are learning, with the assistance of a DLSP…”
Note that the last revision became effective in 2005; and was re-affirmed in 2008. Other ITU documents relevant to the education industry can be found on the page linked below:
We normally coordinate our engagement with ITU standards with the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee which meets four times monthly in European and American time zones. We discuss any best practice title affecting education communities every day at 11 AM Eastern time. We also host a periodic teleconference on the status of Cloud best practice literature. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
Issue: [8-8]
Category: Academics, Electrical, Information and Communication Technology, Telecommunications
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Jim Harvey, Mike Hiler
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Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies
Despite the name given to this ISO technical committee blockchain and distributed ledger technology are related concepts but they are not exactly the same thing.
• A distributed ledger is a database that is spread across a network of computers or nodes, where each node has a copy of the same database. When a new transaction is made on the network, it is verified by multiple nodes and added to the ledger, which creates a permanent and tamper-evident record of the transaction.
• Blockchain is a type of distributed ledger that uses blocks of transactions that are linked together in a chain. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, which creates an unbreakable link between the blocks. This creates a tamper-evident and secure ledger that is resistant to modification.
While blockchain is a specific type of distributed ledger, not all distributed ledgers use blockchain technology. Other types of distributed ledgers include directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), Hashgraph, Holochain and Cordo.
The key difference between blockchain and distributed ledger technology is that blockchain is a specific type of distributed ledger that uses blocks of transactions that are linked together in a chain, whereas distributed ledger technology refers to any database that is spread across a network of computers or nodes.
“Composition A” 1923 Piet Mondrian
Blockchain technology is changing the financial underpinnings of all economic sectors including the education industry in every nation. Accordingly, the International Standardization Organization has set up a relatively new technical committee — ISO/TC 307, blockchain and distributed ledger technologies — to meet the need for standardization in this area by providing internationally agreed ways of working with blockchain and distributed ledger technology to improve security, privacy and facilitate worldwide use of the technology through the highest possible level of interoperability.
The consensus products emerging TC 307 will be relevant not only to not only education industry trade associations who claim an educational/accreditation mission but to college and university marketing departments that can, and should be interested in the ISO 307 products if for no other reason than to secure their claim to mastery of (in the argot of the moment) the most “woke” technologies for students and parents. The executive summary and global participation map is linked below:
STRATEGIC BUSINESS PLAN ISO/TC 307
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In our 20+ year engagement with ANSI accredited standards-setting organizations; and nearly 20-year involvement in international standards promulgated by the ISO, IEC and ITU, we find early drafts of international standards are fairly dilutive; owing to the need to find agreed-upon definitions and the need to assemble an informed, durable and funded group of subject matter experts that can withstand the long-haul. A few of the focus areas we recommend for leaders of the US #WiseCampus zietgeist are listed below:
- Legally binding smart contracts
- Interactions between smart contracts in blockchain and distributed ledger technology systems
- Discover issues related to interoperability
- Guidelines for governance
These are the ongoing focus areas of various committees that appear to contribute to building a foundation for lower (or re-rationalized) costs in the education industry. We keep a weather-eye out for blockchain standard disruption of school district, college and university bond funding mechanisms. The network of stakeholders involved in education facility funding may be an application of blockchain technology that should be investigated. As always, we will try to separate speculative hype from proven, practical approaches to reducing cost.
The public working area identifies committee activity during October-November; characteristic of early-stage ISO product development. US stakeholders — which should include education communities — should communicate directly with INCTIS.
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Standards Australia is the Global Secretariat. Our US colleagues are encouraged to communicate directly with ANSI’s ISO Team and/or the Chair of the US Technical Advisory Group InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) 1101 K Street NW, Suite 610, Washington, DC 20005, Phone: (202) 626-5737. This standard is on the standing agenda of each of our Blockchain, Global, Infotech and Finance colloquia. See our CALENDAR.
Issue: [17-351]
Category: Finance & Management, International
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Christine Fischer, Jack Janveja, Richard Robben
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