This National Standard of Canada is equivalent to International Standard ISO/IEC 11179-6:1997. 1 Scope For each data element to be registered, this part of ISO/IEC 11179 defines the
type of information that shall be specified, the conditions that shall be met,
and the procedure(s) that shall be followed. This part of ISO/IEC 11179 does
NOT specify the register's system design, file organization techniques, storage
media, programming languages, etc. to be used in its implementation. The
procedure prescribed herein, however, may be extended to register other shared
objects, such as object classes, data element concepts, and permissible data
element values.