[SystemSafety] Broken standardisation [was: Collected stopgap measures]

[grivsta at gmail.com]

EVS-EN 61508 Parts 1 to 7, 2010 (English) can be purchased in paper format
for 187.35 Euro (perhaps plus shipping). A 10 user electronic licence for
part 6 is 59.05 Euro  (compared to 23.62 Euro for a single licence) and I
am assuming a similar relationship for the other parts in quantity. This
price is offered by the Estonian Centre for Standardisation. Certainly not
inexpensive, however, I would suggest it is affordable in many workplaces,
agreed not all. Further investigation into the electronic licencing
agreement may allow for a "class set" to be distributed by a university for
students.

I agree that it is not easy to obtain the standard at no cost. There are
legitimate avenues for a significantly reduced investment.

On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 11:35 PM Martyn Thomas <
martyn at thomas-associates.co.uk> wrote:

> This reminds me of a point Peter made earlier. Another reason why the
> IEC 61508 standardisaton process is broken is that it is far too
> expensive for most professionals to own a copy of the standard, and it's
> not available free online.
>
> What use is a standard that is long, complex and largely inaccessible?
> It can't be given to students either.
>
> Martyn
>
>
> On 04/11/2018 11:59, Peter Bernard Ladkin wrote:
> > In the second sentence of the current Part 7 Annex D on statistical
> evaluation of "proven in use"
> > for SW, it is mentioned, misleadingly, that the techniques described
> therein could be used for
> > evaluating operating systems.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> The System Safety Mailing List
> systemsafety at TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE
> Manage your subscription:
> https://lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/mailman/listinfo/systemsafety
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/mailman/private/systemsafety/attachments/20181105/d34e27cc/attachment-0001.html>