Well, I feel like I complain enough as it is so I wasn't gonna bring it up,
but since you asked, I have to agree with you.

I was QUITE surprised yesterday when someone reported that they couldn't
even obtain a copy of 275/276 from the IPC itself, the organization that
published it!
What did they do?  BURN all the old copies the day the new one superceded?
sheesh...

I can handle an occasional numbering change, but the old requirements should
still be AVAILABLE if someone needs to see what they said, dontcha think?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vaughan, Ralph H [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>
> 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 task),  RB-276 had been superceded by the 6012 document.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 learn today that IPC-D-275 is superceded by another document.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.
>

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