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Re: BS:5837 20% offset question

Subject: Re: BS:5837 20% offset question
From: Jerry Ross
Date: Jan 22 2008 09:45:02 


Jim - Quaife Woodlands wrote:
I wonder if the BS5837 is misunderstood (easy enough in places admittedly) 
in that it is not a knowledge base.  It is a tool for the application of
knowledge and one shouldn't be robotic about its interpretation.
Feel the force!  Don't be frightened to use your own knowledge.

One tries to.
But there are still plenty of robots out there (some in positions of
influence) who DO treat it as a knowledge base and insist that there is
NO room for interpretation.
The point is that standards should standardise, not the methods (that
frustrates innovation) but the ideas behind them: their fundamental
purpose should be to define things so that we're all working on a basis
of shared concepts. 
If phrases like 'open-grown' are to be used, they should be defined.
In fact, that particular phrase in this context might be better omitted
altogether- there are better ways of stating how external constraints
should be considered.
But as it is, the whole business of permitted displacement is so loosely
(dare I say badly?) defined that it's bound to lead to disagreement
and/or confusion. 

Review time anyone?


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