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ASTM International eliminates the barriers of time, distance, and cost that may prevent stakeholders from participating in the development of standards. ASTM’s online program enables you to participate from where you happen to be around the globe, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. All you need is web access and an e-mail address.
Tools You Can Use
Membership
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Online Balloting
As a member you may view draft standards documents or proposed revisions through your web browser and cast your vote online. You also have the capability of inserting rationales, comments, and alternative wording in support of negative votes. Ballot results are summarized online after the ballot closes. View a tutorial.
Virtual Meetings/Forums
As a member or interested stakeholder you can use ASTM Virtual Meetings to circulate draft standards and elicit feedback from other participants.
Work Items
Each Work Item has its own web page containing pertinent information, including scope and a contact point, the ASTM staff manager. Use the contact point to start participating. See the current list of work items.
Standards Tracker
Use our free e-mail tracking system to learn about proposed new or revised standards in time to participate. The alerts contain hyperlinks to new work items created in the previous seven days by ASTM committees. You may target your alerts to your area of interest. Sign up here.