On 24/01/2019 8:15 AM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
With regard to payment, I don't think it is appropriate for Standards
Australia to pay for this but the committees do need broad
representation and funding mechanisms for this to happen do need to be
put in place.
The absence of advocates for the relevant public interests has been a
major problem with the standards process in Australia, and many of us
gave up on it as a bad joke years ago.
An example that's fresh in my mind is the appallingly weak requirements
of structural timbers in this country. Germanic, but also many other
European countries, look in disbelief at the undried, warp-in-3-months
softwoods that pass for usable timber here.
I've argued for civil society to prepare and publish its own standards:
http://www.rogerclarke.com/DV/CSSD.html
On 24/1/19 08:51, JLWhitaker wrote:
Isn't NIST a government agency in the US? > Answer: yes.
https://www.nist.gov/
I'm not finding actual standards documents, though ...
At least some of the important NIST Standards are gratis, e.g.:
https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-30/rev-1/final
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