<[email protected]>, Pete Perkins <[email protected]> inimitably wrote: >Some standards committees themselves work to clarify the requirements; for >instance TC74/IEC 60950 has a chairman's advisory panel that will answer >questions from IEC national committees (not from individuals) that are >phrased in a manner that they can be answered by a simple yes/no response. >On occasion the process of answering these questions has prompted a change >in the standard to provide additional clarification to the issue. These >answers are provided back to the IEC national committees for distribution.
IEC TC92 (responsible for IEC/EN60065) has a similar arrangement, but will respond to questions requiring a quite complex response. > >Within the CB Scheme the CTL (Committee of Testing Laboratories) has an >internal method for polling laboratories as to interpretation of >requirements or testing practice and, after discussion, providing an >agreed-upon interpretation for all labs to use. This is intended to provide >uniform interpretation and application of requirements and testing >throughout all of the participating labs on a worldwide basis. I dont >believe that these interpretations are generally available outside the labs. TC92 now sends its interpretations to CTL and to CENELEC OSM (a similar body), also to all IEC National Committees, who are expected to make the interpretations publicly available (but not necessarily free, AIUI). -- Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. Phone +44 (0)1268 747839 Fax +44 (0)1268 777124. http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Why not call a vertically- applied manulo-pedally-operated quasi-planar chernozem-penetrating and excavating implement a SPADE? ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: [email protected] Dave Heald [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.rcic.com/ click on "Virtual Conference Hall,"
