As a founding member of the bi-national committee, I have objected to ANY and ALL deviations from IEC-950 in the BiNet. Obviously, not very succesfully. I believe that if I still were a member of that illustrious group, I would object to there being a national committee in any country that thinks up deviations to IEC 950.
The job of national committees ought to be the preparation of inputs into TC74, and inside, the removal of existing deviations in the national code (and fix the CEC and NAC, while at it). The notion that a good citizen in Preoria Ill needs to go to Geneva to change the national requirements, does not sit very well with many. However, that is the only way we're going to bring sanity to this global market place. There will be a good deal of pain in that procedure, but the only pragmatic way to deal with the problem is to go through the pain. In the mean time, if you have a customer who only buys equipment with gold-plated bases, you will do the plating, if he has the money. Happy not to contribute to any controversy. Vic
