in050986, Port Authority Request for INCITS Executive Board Approval of a Project Proposal for a New INCITS Fast-Track Standard, IT – Transit Fare Cards – Interoperability Framework for Contactless Fare Payment Technologies and Systems

InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards

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Doc: in050986
Date: December 1, 2005
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Reply to: Deborah J. Spittle
Phone: 202-626-5746
email: dspittle@itic.org

ACTION REQUESTED	INCITS Executive Board Members - For Seven-Day Call for Comments ending December 7, 2005
cc:	INCITS Community for Information
Subject:	Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Office of Regional Smart Card Programs, Request for INCITS Executive Board Approval of a Project Proposal for a New INCITS Fast Track Standard, Information Technology - Transit Fare Cards – Interoperability Framework for Contactless Fare Payment Technologies and Systems

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Office of Regional Smart Card Programs, has forwarded a Project Proposal for a New INCITS Fast Track Standard, on Information Technology - Transit Fare Cards – Interoperability Framework for Contactless Fare Payment Technologies and Systems.

In accordance with the INCITS Fast Track Process, Section 5.9 of the INCITS/RD-2, members are being asked to assess the proposal with respect to the following:

"..........The INCITS Secretariat issues a call for comments on the proposal and INCITS members are asked to assess the proposal with respect to the following criteria:

Is the proposed standard within the scope of INCITS?
If there is a TC with responsibility for scope of this work, does the TC have objections to continued processing?

If no objections are raised during this review, the developer will then be invited to submit the candidate standard and other pertinent documentation.

If objections are raised, the INCITS Secretariat will distribute those objections to the Executive Board and the proposer. The organization submitting the candidate standard will be required to respond to any objections.

Any INCITS Executive Board member may request an appeal of the Project Proposal within seven calendar-days.