Stef,
I'm doing some work in a W3C working group where one of the deliverables is
a set of test cases. I.e. a set of machine processable files that give
some kind of before-and-after indication of how certain constructs may be
processed.
These are used (a) as discussion points for building
Hello Graham --
Given your ideas and information, it seems to me that someone my be
able to make a business out of marketing testing software that
customers can use to evaluate other vendors software, so all
customers do not need to self develop the testing software.
This might well be an
I keep working on Keeping It Simple in honor of Stupid;-)... (KISS)
In keeping with this, and still seeking some progress, you might note
that my position is reasonably fluid, since the solution(s) do not
seem to be obvious from the beginning.
It is extremely difficult to do what is needed
Since interoperability on a one-to-many scale would be a problem,
perhaps approaching it from the many-to-one point of view would be
better.
Einar's ideas are good, but still difficult to implement. What happens
when a company fails to find every device it should be tested against?
It almost
Does UL go after companies that produce unsafe devices. My guess would
be no. As far as UL is concerned, companies voluntarily bring their
products to them for certification. It is the consumers and legal
authorities that give UL such a big stick. And with this model, UL
seems to be fairly
Well now, an idea blinked on here;-)...
As Paul Hoffman noted, it costs a small fortune for an entire set of
vendor products to be tested against all other interworking products
(N**2 pairs is the estimate) and there is no proffered business model
for doing this for the entire involved
John,
One addition to your description -- a small, but important,
point...
ANSI (of which both UL and the normative standards on which
their more detailed testing/evaluation standards are based are
members and accredited SDOs) makes a careful decision between
safety standards and other sorts of
Title: Why does Valdis trust UL?
At 10:19 PM -0500 1/26/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have in my bedroom a night light, which
I purchased at a local
grocery store. It has a UL logo on it, which doesn't tell me
much
about its suitability as a night light (I can't tell if it's
bright
enough
