GMX

:" [http://www.gmx.net/ GMX] (global mail exchange) is also the name of a German company with an international webmail product GMX Mail."

GMX is a collection of current and proposed standards, primarily targeted at the needs of the translation industry, although able to be used for other purposes also. They are concerned with measuring quantitatively aspects of a document, particularly those with relevance to the translation process (e.g. word counts, complexity). The primary use cases are in quoting, estimating and billing translation work.

GMX-V is the first of the three standards to be completed.Work will commence in 2007 on GMX-Q and GMXC.Quality (GMX-Q) will deal with the level of qualityrequired for a task. For example, the quality requiredfor the translation of a legal document is much higherthan that for technical documentation that will have arelatively small audience. Complexity (GMX-Q) will takeinto consideration the source and format of the originaldocument and its subject matter. For example, a highlycomplex document dealing with a specific tight domain isfar more complex to translate than user instructions for asimple consumer device.