[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 47, Volume 3]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 47CFR68.604]

[Page 387]
 
                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
 
        CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 68_CONNECTION OF TERMINAL EQUIPMENT TO THE TELEPHONE NETWORK
--Table of Contents
 
        Subpart G_Administrative Council for Terminal Attachments
 
Sec.  68.604  Requirements for submitting technical criteria.

    (a) Any standards development organization that is accredited under 
the American National Standards Institute's Organization Method or the 
Standards Committee Method (and their successor Method or Methods as 
ANSI may from time to time establish) may establish technical criteria 
for terminal equipment pursuant to ANSI consensus decision-making 
procedures, and it may submit such criteria to the Administrative 
Council for Terminal Attachments.
    (b) Any ANSI-accredited standards development organization that 
develops standards for submission to the Administrative Council for 
Terminal Attachments must implement and use procedures for the 
development of those standards that ensure openness equivalent to the 
Commission rulemaking process.
    (c) Any standards development organization that submits standards to 
the Administrative Council for Terminal Attachments for publication as 
technical criteria shall certify to the Administrative Council for 
Terminal Attachments that:
    (1) The submitting standards development organization is ANSI-
accredited to the Standards Committee Method or the Organization Method 
(or their successor Methods as amended from time to time by ANSI);
    (2) The technical criteria that it proposes for publication do not 
conflict with any published technical criteria or with any technical 
criteria submitted and pending for publication, and
    (3) The technical criteria that it proposes for publication are 
limited to preventing harms to the public switched telephone network, 
identified in Sec.  68.3 of this part.