2167A, 498, commercial and mil standards...

[helliott@losat.redstone.army.mil (Doc Elliott)]

Based on recent postings here in cla, there is a lot of uncertainty in 
the area of Military, DoD, etc standards and their application.  I 
suspect that there are also a lot of unanaswered questions on both sides 
of the fence regarding various applicable commercial standards.  Is there 
a newsgroup which addresses this?  Should there be?  Is there a need out 
there for an information source where you could ask questions like "What 
standards are there which apply to RF message formats?" as well as 
questions like "In paragraph X.Y.Z of MIL-STD-498, what is the general 
interpretation of the term 'procedure'?"  Wouldn't it be useful to have a 
readily available FAQ or WWW host that listed sources (electronic and 
otherwise) for all sorts of standards, specs, and the email addresses of 
the greybeards involved in their development?

Any comments?  Telling me to shut up and crawl back under my rock is a 
perfectly acceptable comment...

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