Greeting,

I will be the first to commend ipc for all the good work that they do
for us, but I gotta say that the practice of obsoleting specs and
replacing with new, renumbered documents is making me long for the old
mil-spec days where specs NEVER changed (I never thought I'd say that).
Not too long ago, after much spec comparison and analysis, we convinced
our government customers that it would be prudent to move from
Mil-P-55110 to the IPC-RB-276.  In the time it took to get the new
drawing callout approved, re-train the pwb designers and revise their
guidelines, and bring our stellar board suppliers up to speed (no small
task),  RB-276 had been superceded by the 6012 document.  Now I just
learn today that IPC-D-275 is superceded by another document.  This
kills efforts to streamline and standardize documentation systems.
Also, when these continuous changes take place, it would be convenient
to have a detailed side paper published explaining all the changes (and
maybe why the changes were made).  May be a lot to ask, but it would
keep every user from doing it individually.

Anyone else see this as a problem?

That's all the whining for now.

Ralph

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