Highlights of Changes The 2009 Engineering Manual [5th Edition] incorporates required changes per the American National Standards Institute Subcommittee on Accreditation.

Major changes were made in the following areas:

• Definitions
• Section 2.4.3, TIA Intellectual Property Rights Standing Committee
• Section 3.1.3, Establishment and Dissolution of Subcommittees, Working Groups, or Task Groups
• Section 3.2.2, Formulating Group Balance
• Section 4.1, Eligibility for Formulating Group Chair and Vice Chair
• Section 5.3.3.2, Letter Ballots
• Section 6.3, Establishing a New Project
• Section 6.6.2, Balloting of Standards Proposals
• Section 6.7, Ballot Response Options
• Section 6.8.3, Non-Technical or Non-Germane Comments
• Section 6.9, Processing Ballot Comments
• Section 6.10, Comment Resolution
• Section 6.11, Recirculation of Ballots
• Section 6.12, Standards Approval
• Section 8.2, Bulletins
• Section 12.2.1, Referencing Draft Documents
• Annex A A2, Responsibilities
• Annex A A4, Operation of the Technical Standards Subcommittee (TSSC)
• Annex F Committee Correspondence, removed