Busted. Scot, you’ve finally cracked the code. Pulled back the curtain. Turns out you’re not paranoid - yes, the technical committees have been prosecuting a subversive agenda to adulterate the standards with all manner of obfuscations. There’s actually a double secret sub-committee under the standards council that maintains a document called “The Manual of Blur.”
Here’s what I recommend “we” do: If “we” feel that there are deficiencies that should be resolved, or clarifications that are required of a nebulous prescription, then “we” should write a proposal and send it to the committee in question. As a longtime committee member, I can say with certainty that most of us have been looking at the same text for years, so another pair of eyes and fresh perspective are always welcome. Sniping about secret agendas is … silly at best. Be the change you want in the world. From: Sprinklerforum [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of å... .... Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2017 3:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Committee Intention and Reducing Sprinklers' Pressure in a Combined Standpipe/Sprinkler System We can hope for a theoretical world in which the 'secret' or 'implied' or 'intention' of the Committee needs to be divined, but few designers whom NFPA is reaching out to in the hinterlands, grew up in the culture of 'United States common practice'. They design on what they have, mostly static text.
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