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For details on these commonly used acronyms in the development of TAPPI Standards and TIPs, please see the Standards Guidelines and the TIP Guidelines, or send your questions to standards@tappi.org. 

TIP         =             Technical Information Paper

Q&SMC =             Quality and Standards Management Committee

SSIG       =             Standard-Specific Interest Group

SARG     =             Standards Advisory Review Group

WI          =             Work Item

WG        =             Working Group

WGC      =             Working Group Chair

om         =             Official Method

pm         =             Provisional Method

sp           =             Standard Practice

cm          =             Classical Method

ss            =             Standard Specification

sg           =             Standard Guideline

gl            =             Standard Glossary

wd          =             Withdrawn Standard

UM        =             Useful Method

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