Hey, Ken, let's try to be realistic here! Sure - we should try to get laws we don't like changed, but that isn't going to happen overnight and in the meantime we have to operate within the law as it stands.
Or are you suggesting immediate insurrection by product manufacturers? (Outlaw manufacturers roaming the wild wild west - an interesting concept!) The IEE's guide on EMC and Functional Safety is concerned with such legal aspects, but is also concerned with saving lives in a world where electronic control of safety-related functions is proliferating madly. As my paper at the IEEE's EMC Symposium in Montreal and my recent article in ITEM UPDATE 2001 show - at present EMC standards don't address safety issues, and most safety standards don't address EMC-related functional safety issues. Regards, Keith Armstrong In a message dated 03/01/02 17:24:42 GMT Standard Time, ken.ja...@emccompliance.com writes: > Subj:Re: EMC-related safety issues > Date:03/01/02 17:24:42 GMT Standard Time > From: ken.ja...@emccompliance.com (Ken Javor) > Sender: owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org > Reply-to: <A > HREF="mailto:ken.ja...@emccompliance.com";>ken.ja...@emccompliance.com</A> > (Ken Javor) > To: c...@dolby.co.uk (James, Chris), acar...@uk.xyratex.com > ('acar...@uk.xyratex.com'), emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org > There is an inherent contradiction in this anti-profit, anti-technology > point-of-view that I cannot and will not defend. All I am saying is that > people who feel this is wrong should stand up and say so, not write guides > for how to go along with it. >
