> -----Original Message----- > From: Anchondo, Dan [ mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 9:50 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Making Standards Free > > All > I would like a standard to be free but as with any other > profession you have to pay for your tools. Ill be shopping > for antennas and spectrum analyzers in the near future and I > don't expect to get them for free so standards are just > another cost of doing business. > Regards > Dan Anchondo
Hypothetically, defining every expense as a "cost of doing business" allows you to avoid worrying about the subtleties of paying bribes or hit-men. <g> You should expect to pay for your tools, since you can buy whatever quality and quantity you desire. But the rules, being equally applied to, and required of, everyone, should be free. Now, if the cost of documents truly was "nominal", then this would be a very petty thing to argue about. But documents typically cost >USA$100, and that's not "nominal." Especially when you need to have a set of related documents. Then you start to think about how the cost to create a document was near zero (thousands of volunteered man-hours), and electronic distribution is also quite cheap. So the bulk of the payment goes into the regulatory agency's overhead; not a cheerful thought when you consider the lack of competition and the general style of the agencies. (As an example, I think that the IEEE could save a bundle by selling their Piscataway palace and re-locating to, say, Nebraska.) Regards, Ed Price [email protected] WB6WSN NARTE Certified EMC Engineer & Technician Electromagnetic Compatibility Lab Cubic Defense Applications San Diego, CA USA 858-505-2780 (Voice) 858-505-1583 (Fax) Military & Avionics EMC Is Our Specialty - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
