Late breaking news...from Oz:
 
 
 
In a message dated 7/15/2005 5:21:57 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
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Hi  Rick

Yes you are quite right – someone in Oz is developing a partner  standard to 
AS ISO 15489, which will enable organisations to assess their  level of 
compliance with 15489. It could be used for self assessment, or  independent 3rd 
party “audit”.  There is no formal certification process  attached to this, as 
there is for ISO 9000, as 15489 has not been written or  intended as a 
certification instrument.

The draft is currently still  quite large, and is the valuable input from a 
number of clever people  associated with IT21 (our Standards Aust RM 
committee). It is in an editorial  phase, it will then undergo internal (Standards) 
review processes and be  released for industry consultation in Australia this year.

There is  also some discussion at ISO level (RM committee) about how far 
compliance  should be incorporated into the review of ISO 15489 which is underway. 
 No firm decisions have been reached on that yet.

Hope this  helps.

Regards
Judith

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Standards Australia
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Regards,

Rick

Rick Barry
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