[Asis-standards] Comments on FDIS 17024

[Baden Hughes]

I agree with this too. There's little point polluting the standards
ecosystem with documents like this.

Baden
On Apr 26, 2012 10:46 PM, "McGarry, Dorothy" <dmcgarry at library.ucla.edu>
wrote:

> I think the statement is very good and it is clear. Dorothy
>
>
>
> On Apr 26, 2012, at 5:35 AM, "Thornburg,Gail" <thornbug at oclc.org> wrote:
>
> > this sounds reasonable
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: asis-standards-bounces at asis.org [mailto:
> asis-standards-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Mark Needleman
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 5:58 PM
> > To: ASIST Standards Committee
> > Subject: [Asis-standards] Comments on FDIS 17024
> >
> > Folks
> >
> > Here is a draft of some comments I wrote up to go with a NO vote on that
> document on certification authorities I sent you earlier today. It's just a
> draft and comments and suggestions would be most welcome - although I do
> need them by Saturday 4/28 at the latest
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
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> > Although we doubt that this will have any effect on NISO's vote in ISO
> on ISO/IEC FDIS 17024, ASIST has decided to vote NO on this document. While
> we believe the document contains some valuable and useful guidelines and
> recommendations, we don't feel the document contains the necessary rigorous
> requirements that would justify it becoming an ISO standard.
> >
> > Most if not all of the requirements specified in FDIS 17024 are general
> in their specification and contain no definitions of what they mean and no
> definition of what compliance with them  would mean. Also, because of this,
> the document does not define any mechanism for enforcing compliance or even
> discussing what compliance with it would mean, and, in fact, no mechanism
> for judging wether a certification body is or is not compliant with the
> requirements specified in the document.
> >
> > In our opinion, this is another of what seems to becoming a trend of ISO
> attempting to produce standards, that while they may contain useful
> information and guidelines, do not contain anything that meets the level of
> being a standard that organizations could comply with, and thus does a
> disservice to the community by attempting to make them standards.
> >
> >
> > Sent from Mark Needleman's iPad
> >
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