Treasury Board information or technology standard (TBITS)

A Treasury Board information or technology standard (TBITS) is one that has been approved by the Treasury Board for mandatory use throughout the federal government of Canada. The following are active TBITS in force:

• TBITS 3: Coded Character Set for Information Interchange - Implementation Criteria
• TBITS 5: Canadian Government Keyboard Standard for Information Technology Equipment - Implementation Criteria
• TBITS 6.9: Canadian Open Systems Application Criteria (COSAC), Telecommunications wiring system in Government-Owned and leased buildings - Implementation Criteria
• TBITS 6.11 Naming and Addressing for Government Handling Applications B Implementation Criteria
• TBITS 12: Codes for the Representation of Currencies and Funds - Implementation Criteria
• TBITS 23: Information Technology Vocabulary - Implementation Criteria
• TBITS 25: Materiel Coding - Implementation Criteria
• TBITS 26: Software Product Evaluation, Quality Characteristics and Guidelines for their Use - Implementation Criteria
• TBITS 30: Business Number - Implementation Criteria
• TBITS 36: All-Numeric Representation of Dates and Times - Implementation Criteria
• TBITS 38: Advanced card technologies - Physical parameters and appearance of the Government of Canada employee technology card - Implementation Criteria
• TBITS 39: Treasury Board Information Management Standard, Part 1: Government On-Line Metadata Standard
• TBITS 39: Treasury Board Information Management Standard, Part 2: Controlled Vocabulary Standard

The following TBITS were rescinded by Treasury Board as mandatory policy instruments on government organizations on September 17, 2009. The rescinding of these documents reflected the need to retire obsolete standards as well as lessen the burden of policy compliance and reporting requirements on government organizations commensurate with TB policy suite renewal objectives.

• TBITS 6.12: OSI Registration in the Federal Government, Guidance Document
• TBITS 13: A Guideline on Office Ergonomics - Implementation Criteria
• TBITS 18: Quality Management and Quality Assurance Standards, Guidelines for Selection and Use - Implementation Criteria
• TBITS 19: Quality Systems - Model for Quality Assurance in Design/Development, Production, Installation and Servicing - Implementation Criteria
• TBITS 20: Quality Systems - Model for Quality Assurance in Production and Installation - Implementation Criteria
• TBITS 21: Quality Systems - Model for Quality Assurance in Final Inspection and Test - Implementation Criteria
• TBITS 22: Guidelines for the Application of ISO 9001 to the Development, Supply and Maintenance of Software - Implementation Criteria
• TBITS 27: Information Technology, Software Life-Cycle Processes - Implementation Criteria
• TBITS 28: Evaluation and Selection of Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) Tools - Implementation criteria
• TBITS 35: Flexible Disk Cartridges - Implementation Criteria

TBS CIOB in consultation with government organizations is currently developing a non-mandatory "Guideline on Industry Standards for IT" will reconsider for inclusion updated versions and application of domestic and international standards from several of the rescinded standards notably TBITS 13, 18, 19, 20, 21, 27, and 28.