Message text written by INTERNET:[email protected] >Vic, Thanks for your insights.
Even though the FCC has streamlined the approval process in the last few years I had doubts they would relinquished all controls. I agree approval costs will probably go up, but it would be chaos without FCC controls. I also think these changes are subject to modification. After the industry has had enough time to provide feedback there will be some fine tuning. Duane < Thanks Duane, I have had time to give those 59 pages a bit better read. Seems there is a business opportunity there. Nowhere does it say what the "designation" criteria are, that is, how is the designation authority going to make sure that the applicant understands every aspect and application of the laws of Upper Slobovia ? Spoke to NIST recently and they certainly don't seem to have any intent to set up a shop that knows all these things about all these countries and can evaluate whether the applicant can indeed the requirements in the MRA. It would appear that if the US requires participating Labs to take part in more or less regular sessions on how to interpret the rules, all other parties may have the same notion. That would ofcourse lead to all the "biggies" in the Conformity Assessment business traveling from meeting to meeting around the globe. Since that runs expensive, I am expanding my Consulting Agency to maintain a data base on the requirements on a global basis and engage the services of other old geezers to travel the world to all these meetings and audit CABs on whether they know what they are talking about. Applicants must qualify for all old age travel discounts. This service could be made available to "Designating Authorities" around the world provided they are willing to pay for wheel chairs. Ofcourse, I will be in the business of acrediting the auditors, that is where the money is. Ciao, Vic
