During the CFC phaseout days, a number of the major electronics companies*  
got together to compare compatibility test plans. When all the plans were on 
the  table, they found they were all testing the same materials! The next step 
was to  split up the work, do the testing and prepare a unified report that was 
 available to the industry. 
The 1000 page report is still around in book or disk (MATCOMPAT(TM) format-- 
provided you know who to ask. Perhaps if the  industry got behind such a 
format/data package, strongly backed by leading  electronics groups such as IPC, 
and said to the world 'this is what we are going  to do, take it or leave it'. 
Unified compliance where one company couldn't be  played against another may 
dampen the REACH of the regulators...
 
*AT&T, Boeing, TI, Delco, Hamiliton Standard were among the companies,  as I 
recall. If anyone else participated, pls add them to the list.  

Bill  Kenyon
Global Centre Consulting
3336 Birmingham Drive
Fort Collins, CO  80526
Tel: 970.207.9586 Cell: 970.980.6373
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