The phrase "a draft standard" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a preliminary version of a standard that is subject to review and approval.
Example: "The committee is currently reviewing a draft standard for the new safety regulations before finalizing it."
Alternatives: "a preliminary standard" or "a provisional standard".
In March of 2011, this committee proposed a draft standard called rNews.
A draft standard has been under the international review process and has now been finnally approved at the formal vote.
Further work is proposed to study the origin of some of the discrepancies before the preparation of a draft standard can be undertaken.
The objective of the research was to produce a draft standard giving generic design requirements for technical approval of FRP deck systems.
They propose a draft standard as one of the series of ECSS Standards intended to be applied for the management, engineering and product assurance in space projects and applications.
It will then take at least another 18 months to hammer out a draft standard, and perhaps even longer: the Blu-ray Disc Association and the Consumer Electronics Association will each want a say.The last time your correspondent reported on 3D television was in 1996.
The HSSP has produced an HL7 draft standard and a corresponding OMG technical specification for an Entity Identification Service that resolves the identities of entities (e.g., patients) across systems [ 72, 73].
Consequently the first draft, although not perhaps lengthening as quickly as I might like, is becoming richer, closer to a second draft standard.
In order to extend the coverage area outside the ranges of BSs, a new draft standard, IEEE 802.16j was approved by the IEEE-SA Standards Board in 2006 [22] which is based on IEEE 802.16e standard and extends the coverage by using multihop relaying.
Elaboration of the standard - The preparation of a proposed draft standard is arranged by the Commission Secretariat and circulated to member governments, observer organizations and other Codex committees for two rounds of comments and special advice.
Adopted as an HL7 draft standard in 2006, the Decision Support Service specification provides a standard interface for submitting patient data as the input and obtaining patient-specific inferences using one or more modules of computable medical knowledge [ 59].
