Sec.  68.604   Requirements for submitting technical criteria.

   (a) Any standards development organization that is accredited under the
   American National Standards Institute's Organization Method or the Standards
   Committee Method (and their successor Method or Methods as ANSI may from
   time to time establish) may establish technical criteria for terminal
   equipment pursuant to ANSI consensus decision-making procedures, and it may
   submit such criteria to the Administrative Council for Terminal Attachments.

   (b) Any ANSI-accredited standards development organization that develops
   standards for submission to the Administrative Council for Terminal
   Attachments must implement and use procedures for the development of those
   standards that ensure openness equivalent to the Commission rulemaking
   process.

   (c) Any standards development organization that submits standards to the
   Administrative Council for Terminal Attachments for publication as technical
   criteria shall certify to the Administrative Council for Terminal
   Attachments that:

   (1) The submitting standards development organization is ANSI-accredited to
   the Standards Committee Method or the Organization Method (or their
   successor Methods as amended from time to time by ANSI);

   (2) The technical criteria that it proposes for publication do not conflict
   with any published technical criteria or with any technical criteria
   submitted and pending for publication, and

   (3) The technical criteria that it proposes for publication are limited to
   preventing harms to the public switched telephone network, identified in
    Sec. 68.3 of this part.