Re: [PSES] standards update and legal madness

2013-11-09 Thread Pat Lawler
- The customer could also view the situation as the standards body performing due diligence, and making corrections to the standard when they discover issues. Performing standards maintenance helps protect the customer in case of user lawsuits. - I wonder if there's an 'errors and omissions'

Re: [PSES] standards update and legal madness

2013-11-09 Thread Richard Nute
Hi Brian: ... they want to see complete list of organizations and individuals that contributed to the errors that caused a mandatory update to the standard. Errors is an assumption made by the customer lawyers. I would disagree that the mandatory updates were due to errors. Seldom do published

Re: [PSES] standards update and legal madness

2013-11-09 Thread Brian Oconnell
FWIW, the legal dorks seem to be backing off. Probably because they did not see a big pay day. Agree, in part, with Mr. Woodgate that the industry 'gets what they deserve'. But we have previously discussed the limits of corporate and individual participation in the standards development

Re: [PSES] standards update and legal madness

2013-11-09 Thread John Woodgate
In message e2bb98c9e17843a6ad8d5d1d6159b...@blupr02mb116.namprd02.prod.outlook.com , dated Sat, 9 Nov 2013, Brian Oconnell oconne...@tamuracorp.com writes: The other reason will never serve on a committee is that I am not an expert on any single subject area, That's NOT a disadvantage, at