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wd          =    Withdrawn Standard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