A Standard is a published specification that establishes a common language, and contains a technical requirement or other precise criteria and is designed to be used consistently, as a rule, a guideline, or a definition.
Standards are published for voluntary use and do not impose any regulations. However, laws and regulations may refer to certain standards making compliance with them compulsory. For example, there is a standard that specifies the format and the dimensions of credit cards. Adhering to this standard means that the cards can be used worldwide.
Standards are applied in in every aspect of our lives from consumer products and services, construction, engineering, business, information technology, human services to energy and water utilities, the environment and much more. They are the set of best practices that are based on sound industrial, scientific and consumer experience. Standards ensure products, services and systems are safe, reliable and perform consistently the way they were intended to.
For example:
- A quality management standard many help an organization to perform more efficiently and reduce product failures.
- An environmental management standard may help reduce environmental impacts, reduce waste and be more sustainable.
- A health and safety standard may help reduce accidents in the workplace.
- A food safety standard may help prevent food from being contaminated.
- An interoperability standard may ensure that bank and credit cards fit into ATMs and can be used throughout the world.
SDO is the short-form for Standards Developing Organization. SDOs are primarily involved in developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending or otherwise producing standards.
In the international arena, there are a number of organizations responsible for developing standards. The three largest and most well-established such organizations are the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
On the national level, each nation participating in standardization has its own national body responsible for its standards and for co-operating with ISO internationally.
In order to protect the copyright on standards, we need to control the level of distribution of these documents. A watermark is additional information that is added to electronic documents to identify the rightful licensee. In the case of downloaded publications, using a watermark is a means of personalizing each publication that is downloaded.
A watermark typically display the name of the customer, his or her organization and the download date on each page of the publication. This information is included to indicate that customer is the rightful licensee of the publication.
Yes. All the BSB Edge documents are watermarked.
Digital rights management (DRM) is a systematic approach to copyright protection for digital media. The purpose of DRM is to prevent unauthorized redistribution of digital media and restrict the ways consumers can copy the content that they have purchased. Typically, DRM is implemented by embedding code that prevents copying, specifies a time period in which the content can be accessed or limits the number of devices the media can be installed on.
Yes, we have the DRM system in place and applies it for safe guarding our intellectual property.