Re: [PSES] committee member motivations

: sloz...@ieee.org From: Richard Nute Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2019 10:44 PM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: [PSES] committee member motivations Regarding the standards... standards are written by guys like you and me. Experts in the WG and national committees are not paid for their

Re: [PSES] committee member motivations

I meant to add that we have to take economic considerations into account as well as engineering and science. No-one would thank us for specifying an EMC test that takes three weeks to carry out. We leave that to the people who specify environmental tests! Best wishes John Woodgate OOO-Own Opin

Re: [PSES] committee member motivations

I think that in many cases all of the bullet items apply to active members of a committee. The number of active members may be significantly fewer than the total membership. At the committee level, at least in the IEC and BSI committees that I have attended, is not based on majority voting but

[PSES] committee member motivations

Regarding the standards... standards are written by guys like you and me. Experts in the WG and national committees are not paid for their knowledge (which actually is one of the finest on the planet !) , and many of them will confirm that they (or their employer) actually need to pay to t