I know you love the kiloliter, but I personally find the cubic meter a lot easier to visual. You know, it's about 1 m x 1 m x 1 m. :) Perhaps more important, NIST SP811 discourages usage of prefixes greater than one with the liter (and less than one with the metric ton). As it closely parallels ISO 31-0, I assume ISO 31-0 does too, but I don't have a copy available to check. Until you can talk NIST out of that position, I don't see a draft containing kiloliters passing their review. Congress would surely require such a review and signoff before allowing it out of committee.
--- On Mon, 4/6/09, STANLEY DOORE <[email protected]> wrote: From: STANLEY DOORE <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:44435] Re: FPLA 2010 To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, April 6, 2009, 3:47 AM To go along with putting L (liter) first, I suggest using the kL (kiloliter) in place of a cubic meter in non-engineering (public) usage. kL is much easier to use and is more understandable by the public. kL would be especially useful to describe river and stream flow, lake volume, etc.. Stan Doore ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Armstrong" <[email protected]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2009 8:44 PM Subject: [USMA:44412] Re: FPLA 2010 On 2009-04-05, at 14:47-0700, <[email protected]> wrote: > Attached is a second draft of FPLA 2010 by Eugene A. Mechtly to include contributions by Pat Naughtin and by Stan Jakuba. > <FPLA-4-5.pdf> Nice job. Did you see: http://gometric.us/xwiki/bin/view/Labeling/ ? I posted it a while ago with a few ideas on revisions. Pick it apart as you need. Some thoughts: * Section 2: "Supplementary declarations ... or their multiples." I'd add "in the same font of a size no larger than the primary indicators" so that they can print it smaller, but not 10x the size of the primary indicators. * I would add full words after the abbreviations (e.g. "if on a package, labeled in terms of mass, shall be expressed in g or its multiples;" make it "g (grams) or its multiples;" * I would probably use the strike through method of showing your differences as that seems to be accepted practice. Similarly, show a full FPLA with your changes included for context. * "(iv) if on a container labeled in terms of volume or fluid measure shall be expressed in m or its multiples, or ml, mL, or L." ** I'd reword the end as "L (liters) or m³ (cubic meters) or their multiples". This both puts liters first (so you don't end up with people trying to sell 10 cubic centimeters of tomato paste) and makes the language both simpler and consistent. * 3(A)(II) "multiples" needs to be indented. * Consistently use L or l (preferably L) in the document. Paul -- Make measurement make sense. http://gometric.us
