>> the reason the present/last FTSC decided to put in
 >> expiration dates was to force them to revisit the
 >> expiring standard and to update it or whatever was
 >> needed before it expired... this was supposed to
 >> keep the FTSC alive and also to ensure that we had
 >> current and up to date standards to work from...

 ac> Well that worked well.  I hope it didn't have the opposite
 ac> effect and drive them all away!  

hehehe... well, if they had not gone to sleep at the wheel, it would have
worked just fine... one of the complaints in the past was that standards
weren't being updated or removed when they changed or dropped from common
practise...

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