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Page</a></p> <h1>Technical Subcommittee on Descriptive Standards: Process for Providing TSDS Comments</h1> <em>Process approved by TSDS members: 1999-08-25.</em> <hr noshade> <p><strong>Requests for comments on standards issues generally come to TSDS in the following ways:</strong></p> <ol> <li> A formal request from the chair of SAA's Standards Committee. <li> An informal request from another SAA subunit (e.g., sections, roundtables) or from a group external to SAA (e.g., AMIA, CIMI) </ol> <strong>Such requests will be handled by TSDS as follows:</strong> <ol> <li> Formal requests from SAA's Standards Committee chair. </li> <ul> <li> TSDS chair assigns to a TSDS member to coordinate.</li> <li> Coordinator leads discussion on SAACAIE listserv.</li> <li> Coordinator distills comments, gathers sense of TSDS voting members, writes up response, and forwards to TSDS chair and SAACAIE listserv.</li> <li> TSDS chair forwards response to Standards Committee chair.</li> </ul> <li> Informal 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