Our company received an e-mail asking our standards
personnel to take an online survey about a new UL
standards policy that they are contemplating.
Simply put, I think the policy they presented in the
survey is a HORRIBLE idea. Standards could only be
accessed over the internet through a web browser, and
they could not be downloaded to the viewer's computer
nor could they be printed out.
There were a bunch of bells and whistles, such as
interactive tables-of-contents and links to other
referenced standards (but only as long as you had paid
for access to those reference standards too!!!).
There were also some additional questions about how
much more would the service be worth if it also
included access to practical application guidelines
for those standards (no indication of whether you
could print out or save those, but I would assume you
could not . . . ).
But, in my opinion, there is no way any amount of
bells-and-whistles could compensate for the fact that
my access to UL standards, which my company has paid
for, can be curtailed by any of a hundred things that
I would have no control over and no warning of.
Also, there are times when I will be in an
engineering lab or out on the manufacturing floor or
even visiting a customer when I need to have those
standards with me . . . . and the presence of a
functioning computer with high-speed internet access
is not guaranteed!!!
Has anyone else gotten this survey? Does anyone here
think this is a GOOD idea? This is the first I have
heard of this new standards delivery method - has
anyone else heard of it?
And - maybe a question that is just as important - are
there any other standards organizations that are
currently using or actively contemplating this method
of delivery???
-Camille Good
Portland, Oregon
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