The following is taken from the final RFD and the successful CFV (Call for Votes) which resulted in the creation of s.e.e.c on 17th April 1996

Newsgroups line:
sci.engr.electrical.compliance -
Laws, regulations and design for EMC, safety.

CHARTER: sci.engr.electrical.compliance
Discussions on the laws, regulations, and safety approval procedures governing the production, design and marketing of electronic and electrical equipment, and the engineering techniques used to comply with them.

RATIONALE: sci.engr.electrical.compliance
Discussions on how to manufacture electronic equipment that has to meet the various government regulations are occuring in several different newsgroups (sci.electronics.misc, sci.physics.electromag, alt.engineering.electrical) and various persons have expressed the desire to have a common location. (There is large interest in Europe and with companies who export to there due to recent European Union regulations.)

The name is derived from the common name of this subfield of electrical engineering, compliance engineering.

GUIDELINES
This is an unmoderated newsgroup and in the interests of participants it is hoped that the following guidelines will be agreed by users:

1. This is a technical discussion newsgroup with subscribers using many heterogeneous operating systems and platforms. All postings should be in plain ASCII text, and on-topic relative to the charter and rationale of the newsgroup. (It is helpful if you wrap text at about 70 characters/line, so that it may be moderately quoted without exceeding 80 characters.)

2. Exceptionally, if you feel you must post short binaries, such as small schematics, diagrams, etc, they should be in compressed format (e.g.TIFF, JPEG or postscript) not exceeding 10k.Long binaries/graphics and long program files must NOT be posted. Please arrange for them to be available at an ftp or Web site. A short announcement describing the nature of the material and giving the URL where it may be accessed is welcome.

3. Announcements of conferences, seminars, courses, exhibitions and meetings devoted wholly or mainly to compliance matters and related products are welcomed and encouraged, as are short announcements of new books and guides.

4. Commercial announcements or "plugs" for products are not appropriate, but short announcement of the URLs of commercial Web sites carrying details of products related to the purposes of the newsgroup are acceptable.A specific recommendation of a particular product as a solution to a problem is acceptable.

5. Short announcements of job vacancies in the compliance/EMC/safety area are acceptable. Postings of CVs are NOT acceptable.

6. Normally, postings should be signed. However, it is recognised that there may be legitimate reasons for on-topic postings via anonymous remailers, e.g. if a matter is commercially sensitive.

The remainder of this FAQ is devoted to a listing of sources of information relevant to the newsgroup, and some commonly asked questions and answers.
PLEASE ADVISE CORRECTIONS OF ANY ERRORS YOU MAY DETECT, OR SUGGESTIONS OF ADDITIONAL USEFUL INFORMATION, AS INDICATED AT THE END OF THIS FAQ.