Hello, folks, Please allow me to submit a new idea before you. This whole debate I and Jim have been having on SI frameworking got me thinking.
How about we focus our efforts on getting countries around the world to yield authority on the issue of system of units to the "local" standards bodies, which, evidently, in turn, would be subject to the highest *international* authority on the issue, BIPM, for example (given that this is a science issue and science has NO frontiers, issues of sovereignty should not be a concern). In other words, when it comes to the use of units of measurements, ALL stakeholders in the society should use what such authoritative bodies would stipulate as "legal". This is actually similar to how it is, for instance, in my birthcountry, Brazil. This could be a "backdoor" entrance to metrication in the US. That's how it would work. We would first get the equivalent BIPM arm in the US to recognize ONLY SI units as having any legal status. Secondly we would do legislativewise what is necessary to give such body full authority on this. The argument for this implementation would be obvious. Since units of measurements ARE the *unquestionable* domain of science, it would only make sense to yield power and authority on this to those professionals in this area. It's not like this would be a first or unheard of. We already do this for things like safety, environment, etc. Therefore, why not extend this to units of measurement? Comments anyone, please? Thanks for your feedback. Marcus Is your boss reading your email? ....Probably Keep your messages private by using Lycos Mail. Sign up today at http://mail.lycos.com
