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Last few days/hours to comment on Amendment 2, BS7671 before the shutters close

mapj1
Just a reminder the deadline for comments on the latest draft for  comment is fast approaching - this Friday the 11th in fact. (Though it is not clear if that is midday or midnight, so probably best to log in and out again before the end of Thursday..)


If you wish to comment and have not yet done so you need to create an account on the BSI website

Click on login/register on the RHS of the BSI welcome page  and  give them an email you can read without needing to change machine, as you need to click a verify link they send you.

Once logged in  search for "BS 7671:2018" oddly searching for BS 7671 without the space between BS and 7671:2018 does not find it...

There are 4 links as the thing is a bit of a monster. PDFs of each part can be downloaded for perusal, but to finally comment you need the on-screen viewer (the Read Draft and comment button)

This is not quick so allow plenty of time.



regards Mike
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    It is going to be very difficult for JPEL/64 to ignore all the AFDD comments. One of them even asks for information on "vested interests" to be published. Oh dear.
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    What? You mean that someone has had the temerity to submit a request for transparency in the decision making process??

    Whatever next?

    I can hear bottoms squirming on seats when that one is read out! After which will follow the frantic noise of shredders running 24/7!
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    They will probably just dry their tears with the sweet sweet cash that the manufacturers have bunged them to get their overpriced unproven products into BS7671
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    Dbat:

    They will probably just dry their tears with the sweet sweet cash that the manufacturers have bunged them to get their overpriced unproven products into BS7671


    Oops - unfounded statement and potentially offensive .. if it weren't the joke it clearly is ?


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    Well, it's now closed for public comments.


    Any guesses on what the final version might look like?


       - Andy.
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    A number of members of the Forum have done their best. I am sure that there will be some serious discussions going on behind closed doors, as you say though Andy, the outcome is anyone's guess.


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    AJJewsbury:

    Well, it's now closed for public comments.


    Any guesses on what the final version might look like?


       - Andy.


    Complete  boldylolocks?


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    I rather suspect that the respone will be along the lines of "We thank everyone for their input, we will take your comments onboard (then throw them over the side as soon as your back is turned and you have walked out the door)"
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    whjohnson:

    I rather suspect that the respone will be along the lines of "We thank everyone for their input, we will take your comments onboard (then throw them over the side as soon as your back is turned and you have walked out the door)"


    Well, let's see! The response to the proposal to mandate AFDDs has been overwhelmingly negative. If they remain a recommendation, the DPC was worthwhile; but if not, WHJ may well be correct. ?


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    I am less cynical- after all in the last DPC the earthing  electrodes for PME supplies got pushed back, as did one or two other sillies.


    The whole point of the Public Comment phase is to allow the users of the standard to point out to the committee how their efforts are used in practice, and perhaps where things can be clarified or  improved,  and it is a very good idea, after all it is not reasonable to expect a small committee to be utterly infallible, and to foresee all circumstances that will arise in the field.


    And with rose tinted spectacles removed,  there would be little point in a set of standards that lost their influence, because the authors were  perceived, whether rightly or wrongly, to be being driven by ulterior motives. The faintest sniff of that would actually be very damaging indeed, to personal reputations, to the standard, to the IET,  and to the BSI, so the desire for it not to happen will be strong.


    Remember that in the UK the regs are non-statutory, and in other technical fields there are plenty of abandoned standards (some BS, some EN some ANSI) that no-one follows any more for one reason or another, because they were inadvertently locked to one way of doing things that is simply not used in practice.


    I do not think for a moment that anyone commenting here would be keen for that to happen to BS7671, and it is probably safe to assume it won't be allowed to happen. So don't panic just yet.

    regards,

    Mike.

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