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STAR - November 2025 - Acronyms You May Need to Know
November 26, 2025
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| wd | = | Withdrawn Standard |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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