For Information Technology Equipment and Telecommunications Equipment, the responsible standards organization in Mexico is NYCE (Normalizacion y Certificacion Electronica).
The VP in charge of Certification is Victor-Hugo Perez-Salinas, the operating manager is Julio Nunez. Victor-Hugo is ex-Motorola, Julio is ex Alcatel. Both speak fluent English. They can be reached at: 011-525-687-3932, 687-3852, 536-3378, 543-3639, 536-3408 or fax at 543-4070. The Mexican high-tech industry would like to switch to IEC-950 and Mexican representatives now participate in the work of IEC TC74. However, under Mexican law, if they switch to IEC-950, that is the only standard they can use. That would play havoc with Mexican pencil sharpener manufacturers, etc., etc. Hence they are looking for a way to accomodate that concern. In addition, Mexico, and many other 3rd world countries, do not have an infrastructure that allows them to have many laboratories that are equipped to measure to high-tech standards. They can not promolgate standards that no Mexican laboratory can test to. Hence, they will have to earn the money to pay for that expertise, in their country, by any and all means. It is unacceptable that stuff would be tested by foreign laboratories to Mexican requirements, because Mexico can't do it. I estimate that they will need about $ 300 M in regulatory revenue on high tech equipment, to do that. We are going to pay that money, one way or the other. (SWAG=Scientific Wild Arsed Guess). Ciao, Vic
