Hi Techies

As a member of IEC TC91 WG3 (all under Dieters tutelage) and following
Brian's message, permit me to clarify the situation of standards adoption as
I understand:

If, God forbid, the end product from an electronics manufacturer was found
responsible for a failure that resulted in a law suite, then that
manufacturer would be held blameless had they properly used/employed the
prevailing National Standard - industry norms don't count as National
Standards.

Under EU law, ANY IEC or ISO Standard shall, automatically, take precedence
over, or replace, the then prevailing National Standard of the country
concerned.

Naturally all countries who are signed-up to WTO are encouraged to
participate and vote on new offerings made by the many and various TC's
(Technical Committees) and their WG's (Working Groups).

As with IPC, there are various voting stages, and each take time to arrive
at consensus, ergo J-STD 004.

As with IPC, the standards are reviewed for renewal or update on a 5 year
cycle. In respect to lead-free, the cycle period is being reduced - for a
few documents to my knowledge - to a 2 year period.

IPC certainly benefits from a far greater user input and are able, for
whatever reason, to obtain good research data faster than the IEC or ISO.

All of which might be considered glacial flow, to quote Werners comment, but
maybe global warming is speeding-up the outpourings.....there is certainly
enough hot air being generated!

--
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