ISO.org outage hits day 3: Still in the dark as the important matter of bunk bed standards enters discussion The great International Organization for Standardization outage is entering its third day as consultants find themselves bereft of technical documents with which to beat engineers. Problems first appeared as 26 January drew to a close and the organisation noted: "We are currently facing a technical outage impacting our …
More likely they've just over-complicated their IT so it's got fragile. Not too long ago they changed the portal used by contributors to standards. Before the change it worked perfectly well. After the change it only worked on very recent browsers and required an 'app' download of many megabytes just to present a page where one could click on a link to download a (typically sub-megabyte) document.
"Lucky" for me I'm required to retrieve relevant standards from our internal web portal.
Every time a relevant standard is updated, the portal emails me to tell me that I have an updated standard. Of course, it doesn't actually tell me which standard has updated. I also haven't deduced exactly how it determines which standards I really care about (there's no explicit "subscribe").
It also lists standards in multiple languages, and filtering to English only is spotty (asking for English only seems to miss documents where English and German versions are in the same document). Final bonus is that some standards appear in the list, but they don't seem to have an actual documemt to view.
Loads of fun when you're trying to build a wall of standards that can repel an auditor.
They identified the problem two days ago, but the solution has to be ratified by the working group before being passed to the 26 national committees to make sure the punctuation is all correct. Once the spreadsheet summarising the feedback has been correlated and passed around for comment, then the final draft will be published and reviewed, and all going well the website should be back up by about March. March 2023.
I think the F1 Managing Director of Motor Sports definitely can (the man who writes the rules) aka Ross Brawn.
The problem is the new race director doesn't have the benefit of the experience that good old Charlie Whiting had, to allow him to interpret those regulations in a more nuanced fashion
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