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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Dear Ron<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>>></span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <i>"</i></span><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Perhaps this is the time, <b><u>before</u></b> there is anything approaching an ISO standard, to discuss the foundational concepts upon which any claims to performance improvement might lie."<br><br></span></i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>>2</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>. I went to all the standards sessions at the </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>GACC Forum that I could. I came away with the impression that the standards are very near set - mainly because a large amount of work and time has gone into their development. </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>If the ISO standard (which will be agreed by a vote among nations) is to be accepted (not just ‘passed’) it has to be relevant. The key missing ingredients so far are a) the discussion of what is done during a test has not been extended to the concepts that under lie it, - we have just been rehashing the old WBT pioneered 25 years ago. And b) it has not been externally reviewed by a competent authority. Obviously both these issues have been brought to the attention of the relevant parties.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>The world of ISO standards is not like the garage mechanic stove inventers writing their own <i>ad hoc</i> tests of what they think should happen or be looked at. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Do in a large amount of work does not always overcome fundamental obstacles.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'> 3. How about giving us <b><u>ONE</u></b> paragraph in 4.2.2 to look at - and with especially new language on how you would change that paragraph? Even if that has to be a year or two from now.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>How is this:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I give you 5 litres of water in a pot and ask you to bring it to a boil.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>You put it in a fire and bring it to what we agree is ‘a boil’ by which time 100 cc has evaporated.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I ask you how many litres of water you have just boiled.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>What is your answer?</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>That is an example of a conceptual difference. The WBT says you boiled 4.9. An engineering will say you boiled 5.0. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Is this cognitive dissonance or conceptual error?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Crispin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>