Section 1.2 of iso5963 just discusses the relevance of the document to the community that might want to use it. It’s common for standards documents to have this sort of information in it. A lot of them specify the duration of the standard, what standards they replace or augment, and how generally applicable the standards are. This is important information when you make a standard because it’s the important to say what the standard is, who it is for, and how long it is in effect for.
However, I’ve always found the wording ‘can be employed by any agency by which human indexers…’ to be pretty funny, because ‘agency’ can also mean ‘means.’ So, it’s also a play on words, although I doubt that that was their intention. Personally, I am subject to compulsive misprisions, which is what that sort of misreading is technically called.
Being prone to verbal misunderstanding at a somewhat compulsive level makes doing the indexing thing fun, probably more fun than it should be.
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