Hi Werner, NPL, GuentG-TomA, and IPC LF Listservers,

Werner, Thanks for reading and inputing.

My thought wasn't towards 2006. It was towards 2010's elimination date for
equipment like servers, and telecommunication; as well as, the future
potential elimination of other exemptions that right now do not have an
established end date. Marconi's concern seems to me to be focussed on 2010.

Whatever NPL, the Swiss, or others will predict from their Accelerated Life
tests and models I would hope to start showing some correlation with real
life product at 5 years out (2009-2004) one year ahead of 2010 to
potentially push out 2010 to collect more comparison data if the comparison
is going badly. Hey Werner remember HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) and
the NIH's Woman's Health Initiative. NIH's WHI gave a stop signal quite
early when the statistical comparisons showed greater then expected
deviations.

Werner, you know how this works. A model, testing and then data. When the
data shows a new effect that can't be fixed (which is tried first) the
model is changed. Along the way Warranty Costs, and Customer Good Will
comes into play.

My hope is that DTI will fund NPL and we will have good statisticans to
work the correlation.

Yours in Engineering, Dave
YiEngr, MA/NY DDave

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