CAN/CSA-ISO/IEC 19762-2-08

Preface

Standards development within the Information Technology sector is harmonized with international standards development. Through the CSA Technical Committee on Information Technology (TCIT), Canadians serve as the Canadian Advisory Committee (CAC) on ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 on Information Technology (ISO/IEC JTC1) for the Standards Council of Canada (SCC), the ISO member body for Canada and sponsor of the Canadian National Committee of the IEC. Also, as a member of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Canada participates in the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (ITU-T).

Scope

This part of ISO/IEC 19762 provides terms and definitions unique to optically readable media (ORM) in the field of automatic identification and data capture techniques. This glossary of terms enables the communication between non-specialist users and specialists in optically readable media through a common understanding of basic and advanced concepts.