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On the other hand, some ISO standards are too important to ignore. For
example, my company has to maintain compliance with ISO 13485 (Medical
Devices), in tandem with FDA regulations. Not that ISO 26514 is a matter
of life or death, but it should still be developed with a high level of
professionalism.
-- Dan Goldstein
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Kim-Eng
> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 6:56 PM
> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Re: ISO 26514 draft ready for comment [long]
>
> I think it's more likely that something like this, if added
> as-is to the current ISO library, will merely boost the rate
> at which US companies are losing interest in pursuing ISO
> certification. The last four companies I've worked for/with
> were not ISO compliant and had no intention of pursuing
> certification (one of them had actually achieved it years
> earlier and had subsequently decided not to maintain it).
> However, I would agree that it's still a good idea to at
> least try to inject a note of reality into this boondoggle.
>
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