CSA ISO/IEC 17592 : 2005

Section 1 - General
1 Scope
2 Conformance
3 Normative references
4 Terms and definitions
5 Conventions and notations
6 List of acronyms
7 General description of the optical disk
8 General requirements
9 Reference Drive
Section 2 - Dimensional, mechanical and physical
            characteristics of the disk
10 Dimensional characteristics
11 Mechanical characteristics
12 Optical characteristics
Section 3 - Format of information
13 Data format
14 Track format
15 Sector format
16 Format of the Information Zone
17 Defect management
Section 4 - Characteristics of embossed information
18 Method of testing
19 Signals from lands and grooves
20 Signals from Header fields
21 Signals from Embossed Area
Section 5 - Characteristics of the recording layer
22 Method of testing
23 Write characteristics
Section 6 - Characteristics of user data
24 Method of testing
Annex A (normative) - Measurement of the angular deviation
        alpha
Annex B (normative) - Measurement of birefringence
Annex C (normative) - Measurement of the differential phase
        tracking error
Annex D (normative) - Reflectivity calibration and measuring
        method
Annex E (normative) - Tapered cone for disk clamping
Annex F (normative) - Measuring conditions for the operation
        signals
Annex G (normative) - 8-to-16 Recording code with RLL (2,10)
        requirements
Annex H (normative) - Definition of the write pulse
Annex J (normative) - Burst Cutting Area (BCA)
Annex K (informative) - Guideline for randomization of the Gap
        length, the Guard 1 length and the recording polarity
Annex L (informative) - Transportation
Annex M (informative) - Guideline for sector replacement

Describes the mechanical, physical and optical characteristics of an optical disk, identified as DVD Rewritable Disk (DVD-RAM), to enable interchange of such disks.