At 17:24 +0100 7/4/10, John Woodgate wrote: <shudder>
One the problems with which being that there are clearly many committees which do not understand the difference between 'normative' and 'informative'. This does not tend to be a problem with CENELEC standards but it's clear from many of the CEN standards I have seen that the authors did not understand that the normative references section should not simply be a bibliography of other 'useful' documents. Nick. > >On bad days, I dream of the IEC standard that consists of absolutely >no words other than normative references to other standards. (;-) - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <emc-p...@ieee.org> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <emcp...@socal.rr.com> Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald: <dhe...@gmail.com>