Joint Committee on Environmental Leadership Standard for Servers

Enclosed for your review is the draft of NSF 426 Environmental Leadership Standard for Servers, issue 1, revision 1. Please review the ballot for this standard and submit your vote by the ballot due date of May 19, 2015 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). A copy of the NSF International Standard Development and Maintenance Policies are available here for further information on the process. Webinar: There will be a webinar open to all interested stakeholders on May 5th, 2015 at 11am EDT, to review the draft standard and answer questions. The meeting registration is available here. Please note that NSF and IEEE discussions continue on a joint environmental leadership standard for servers. NSF remains fully committed to a positive outcome from these deliberations. In the interim, both Standards Development Organizations continue to work on their respective processes per their mutual agreement when the negotiations began. Purpose The purpose of this ballot is to create a new standard for servers that addresses product environmental performance criteria and corporate performance metrics that exemplify environmental leadership in the market.