Re: making the case for self-tapping screws
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Roger Robar <rrobar@...>
What has "making the case for self-tapping screws" got to do with the NMRA?
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PLEASE change the subject line. Roger Robar _____ From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] On Behalf Of Didrik Voss Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 6:01 PM To: STMFC@... Subject: Re: [STMFC] Re: making the case for self-tapping screws Jon, Prior to earlier this year, Standards had to be approved by the NMRA membership and RPs were approved by the BOD. Approving changes to Standards did take up to two years. However, RPs changes could be approved every 6 months since the BOD met every 6 months. This has now changed. Changes for both Standards and RPs are now approved by the BOD which means they also can be updated and approved every 6 months. Changes to Standards will be published in Scale Rails so members can review and provide comments before approved by the BOD. The problem now is to get the manufacturers to agree to the changes. Without manufacturer concurrence, changes to Standards will make no sense. Your problem with DCC terminology changes was probably due to the manufacturers not responding in a timely fashion and not the delays caused by the NMRA bureaucracy. Maybe you could provide me with additional information off list that would help me understand where the problem lays. Didrik ----- Original Message -----
From: Jon Miller To: STMFC@yahoogroups. <mailto:STMFC%40yahoogroups.com> com Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 12:21 PM Subject: Re: [STMFC] Re: making the case for self-tapping screws Our volunteers do run out of energy after afew years and want to get back to doing just modeling.< Here is the problem, at least as I see it. A few years is just too long to change things. DCC can change without a membership vote, as I understand it, but even then it's seems to take a year or more. Talking to a cell phone rep the other day (we use many of those components in our decoders) his comment was that phones change every 6 months or less. This means the parts (and probably the software) change in that time period. Changes need to occur much faster than the NMRA seems to be able to react. Maybe all specifications should be taken away from a membership vote (however that could be done) and allow those volunteers see their work take place in a reasonable time period. I'm sure you would get more volunteers if they could see something happen with all their hard work. I know I tried with some DCC terminology some time ago. Lots of emails and compiling information and when presented I received an email that said "what's wrong with it now". Of course that ended my work in that area. Jon Miller AT&SF For me time has stopped in 1941 Digitrax, Chief/Zephyr systems, JMRI user NMRA Life member #2623 Member SFRH&MS |
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