| The Sponsor shall initiate revision
of a standard whenever any of the material in the standard (including all
amendments, corrigenda, etc.) becomes obsolete or incorrect, or if three
or more amendments to a base standard exist three years after its approval
or most recent reaffirmation.
The Sponsor may initiate revision of a standard when new material becomes
available and normal evaluation of need and feasibility indicates revision
is warranted. The procedure for revising a standard is the same as for
developing a new standard. A revision shall encompass the cumulative scope
of the project (including all approved amendments and corrigenda).
In a revision, balloters may register objections
to any part of the standard, as the revision process opens the entire document
to comment. (The amendment process shall be used when new material and
possibly corrections of a limited scope are proposed.)
The draft revision document submitted to the
IEEE-SA Standards Board shall be a complete version of the revised document.
A complete document shall include both the changed and the unchanged text,
with balloted changes incorporated into the document.
When a standard is revised, its approved amendments
and corrigenda
shall be withdrawn as separate documents. Existing amendments and corrigenda
shall either be integrated into the base document or eliminated as indicated
in the PAR or determined by the Sponsor balloting process
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