The intent of this test procedure is to provide guidelines for acceptable optical fiber endface appearance and defines the techniques which are commonly employed to obtain such appearance. This procedure is intended to promote uniformity in fiber end preparation quality for testing and for optical signal transmission. This FOTP is not intended to require examination of every fiber end, nor is it intended to establish firm requirements (which are normally established by Detail Specifications), and is made available only to provide guidelines for various levels of end quality that may be called out in Detail Specifications or in other FOTPs.