scope:

This Standard is a general specification for technical publications.

The purpose of this Standard is to assist harmonization of the contents of technical publications and of quality assurance in the preparation of such publications by providing a central standard against which the differing requirements of national Services may be prepared.

The Standard contains a number of proposed rules for the content of technical publications. Rules contained in Chapters 5 to 13 for any category are to be mandatory for contractors when that category chapter is quoted in any contractual document as the specifications to be used.

At Chapter 14 the Standard sets out proposals to be used as a guide to the formation of mandatory requirements to be stipulated in the contract, for the quality assurance of the preparation process so as to attain the standard desired in the technical publication content.