AFP/A ISO Standard review

AFP/A ISO Standard review - help needed

November 12, 2020, 11:52 PM

Hello everybody,

since this is a user-centric list, you may still have valid contacts in your address book:

I am sure you have heard of the AFP/A ISO standard 18565:2015 (title: "Document Management - AFP/Archive"). Obtaining this ISO standard was and is an important cornerstone for decision-makers in output management, which we users have of course known for many years: AFP has always been and will continue to be a valid format with regard to long-term archiving strategies. The AFP Consortium and all the manufacturers represented in it have proven their promise of stability and their willingness to cooperate sufficiently over more then fifteen years already. To maintain this position, it was nevertheless important to put this ISO standard on top.

All ISO standards are systematically reviewed, usually every five years after publication. This time is now for AFP/A or ISO 18565:2015. There is little time left to let the candidates of the standards group from as many countries as possible renew their vote on this standard to keep AFP/A alive. To keep our world alive ;-) This is not true, of course.

Truth is that the ISO 18565 standard helps to keep AFP in the memory of decision-makers in general. The AFP/A and all other function and interchange sets as well as the general base standard will both remain stable, be available and will be further developed by the members of the AFP consortium, for sure. For the next decade minimum.

Would you please contact a member of the ISO standards group in your country with whom you are in contact and ask him to vote on a possible renewal of ISO 18565, if any? This would help all of us a lot, I believe!

Best regards
Guido Schnepp