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工an Monroe 🚰
@eean.dev

Imagining a guy on the ISO C++ committee complaining things are too technical. Why are these guys controlling our building code?

Mo Zhu@moinmybackyard.bsky.social

"We have to cover a variety of topics whereas our proponents get to be experts on one topic." Robert's personal story about this [again, like this is group therapy] In CA, we lobbied against and defeated 6 stories statewide. They backed down and it became a study.

工an Monroe 🚰
@eean.dev

Private standard committees work well enough for USB and HDMI, but for some reason it's a total joke for building codes

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social

This thread is a pretty sobering look into how the building code sausage gets made in the US. We really need the public sector to impose some actual rigor and cost benefit analysis on this process.

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Mo Zhu
@moinmybackyard.bsky.social

A very important detail that gets missed here is that these folks are NOT engineers. They are building department plan examiners, inspectors, firefighters, etc. They do enforcement and implementation, not system-level analysis. It’s kind of like if the police could write the criminal laws.

Mo Zhu
@moinmybackyard.bsky.social

The contrast with the ANSI standard development committees is very revealing. I’m glad you mentioned it! The ICC process is NOT ANSI-compliant.