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This article focuses on the proposed USA Standard, which presents control procedures for the data communication systems. This employs the USA Standard Code (SC) for Information Interchange. It is intended for systems that are controlled through the use of the communication control characters provided in USASCII. Other standards have been adopted or are being developed which prescribe the character structure, bit sequencing, signaling speed, message format, and other parameters vital to the communication of information in a data system. In the development of this standard both historical and present data communication practices were considered. In addition, consideration was given to the requirements for future systems and to the applicable standards being developed internationally. This standard is intended for systems that are controlled through the use of the communication control characters provided in USASCII. This standard specifies a variety of data communication control procedures to meet the needs of data communication links having different configurations or complexity.

Describes the procedures and criteria to be used in the process of standardizing programming languages from initial consideration through recommendation of a proposed standard. Information on various working documents and reports employed as source material in the development of a standard specification for a programming language; Report that the suitability for standardization is determined according to the apparent advantage of standardization, the general suitability of the language, and the appropriateness of the purpose of the language; Discussion on the criteria for Draft Proposed Standards.

The user public wants standardization and reliable identification of programming languages and related services. One way of achieving these goals is illustrated by the methods adopted for TRAC T-64 interactive language, and its related family of languages. Oppressive rigidity usually associated with standardization is avoided by a new accommodation technique accessible to the user to allow local variations within the language. Explicit standardization of the language is undertaken at the organizational source of the language. Use of the organizational trademark (TRAC) on the published standards, and services relying upon them, provides a reliable public identification. These methods can be usefully applied to other programming languages and computer services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]