Enclosed for your review is the draft IEEE-NSF Joint Standard - IEEE 1680.4/NSF 426 Standard for Environmental Leadership Assessment of Servers issue 2, revision 1. Please review the ballot for this standard and submit your vote by the ballot due date of September 14, 2016 via the online workspace (http://standards.nsf.org).
Each Joint Committee member will vote affirmative, abstain, or negative with comment. Each negative vote must be justified in the comment section. Please include exactly why you oppose and what changes must be made in order for you to support the proposed draft.
Comments submitted during the balloting period, as well as the public comment period, will be responded to in writing. New substantive issues will be brought forward to the Joint Committee during a revision ballot (if applicable).
Please note that NSF and IEEE will be addressing all comments jointly at the face to face meeting scheduled for October 25, 26 and 27, 2016 at Cisco’s Campus in San Jose, California.
A copy of the NSF International Standard Development and Maintenance Policies are available here for further information on the process.
Purpose
The purpose of this ballot is to create a new joint IEEE-NSF standard for servers that addresses product environmental performance criteria and corporate performance metrics that exemplify environmental leadership in the market.
Background
The standard provides a framework and consistent set of performance objectives for manufacturers and the supply chain in the design and manufacture of servers and server components. For purchasers, this standard provides a consensus-based definition of key environmental attributes and performance metrics, alleviating individual purchasers from the arduous and complex task of defining environmental performance for servers. This standard can be used within an established system for the identification of environmentally preferable products by purchasers and to provide market recognition for conforming products and brand manufacturers.
This standard was developed based on the principle that only environmental leadership products, those in the top third of the market, are expected to qualify to the standard at the Bronze level at the date of publication of the standard. Only a very few, if any, products are expected to meet the highest performance level (Gold) at the date of publication of the standard.
This standard will be continually maintained and periodically reviewed to ensure that the definition of environmental leadership, as reflected in the performance criteria, progresses with the evolution of technology and services and environmental improvements in the product sector.
Public Health Impact
The new standard intends to have a positive impact on public health. |
