wasn't the point of this excercise to acnowledge the move towards electronic, 
rather than paper, data?  Some of the "Shall's" are really "used to be's"

It's FAR easier to track ECN data in a PDM system than to try to read 
abbreviations and vague referneces that fit in a revision block.  Not to 
mention often adding pages and pages of confusion that the current vendor 
does not need.  Prior to our PDM system we had seperate documents in a 
word processor based format.

"The initial release of a design will be given a (-) revision"  Is the IPC going to 
dictate my company's potty break policy, too?  Is this really hard to figure out 
whether a company uses A, B, C; 1, 2, 3, or A1, B1, C1?  Some PDM systems 
haev revision numbering restrictions.  It's FAR more important that the drawing 
matched the electronic history.

"the description shall identify whether the revision impacts form, fit, 
function".  Is "and/or" missing?  It doesn't make sense otherwise.  FFF is the 
reason for a revision (or new number)

"The method of excising individual boards shall be included in the assembly
pallet description".  This has to happen to some degree if you are specifying 
the assembly panel, there are different separation spaces for v-grooves and 
routes.  We do this as a rule anyway, for safety's sake.

"(or registration targets) shall be located on grid and on each layer".  We 
leave this up to the fabricator, since it's off board.  Is this a bad practice?

"Unplated through hole patterns ... They shall be explicitly dimensioned and 
toleranced, even if they occur on grid."  Again, the electronic data trumps this 
requirement.  Some need to be dimensioned for reference and inspection, but 
not all.

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