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[Una Smith <una@lanl.gov>]

Jorene wrote:
>                          it is simple enough to just use 
[NASAR's] standard without testing for the NASAR certification.

I don't agree.

The NASAR standards include hooks to NASAR's own fee-based
training and testing programs, thus their standards are in
fact not proper standards but rather are contaminated by a
marketing scheme.  (Like Microsoft's certification programs,
which in the computer consulting industry are a sine qua non
for some and a joke for others.)

If an organization adopts a NASAR standard but does not use
NASAR's fee-based programs then either (a) the organization
violates its standard or (b) its standard is not the NASAR
standard.

        Una Smith
        Santa Fe County Sheriff's Posse, in New Mexico