This International Standard specifies the physical and magnetic characteristics of an 8 mm wide magnetic tape cartridgecontaining a memory chip to enable physical interchange of such cartridges between drives. It also specifies the quality of therecorded signals, the recording method and the recorded format - called Advanced Intelligent Tape No. 3 (AIT-3 format) -thereby allowing data interchange between drives by means of such magnetic tape cartridges.This International Standard specifies two types of cartridge depending on the thickness of the magnetic tape contained in thecase.Information interchange between systems also requires, at a minimum, agreement between the interchange parties upon theinterchange code(s) and the specifications of the structure and labelling of the information on the interchanged cartridge.