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wd         =            Withdrawn Standard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