Talk:Conformity assessment

Can anyone please give me the standardIZED definitions of conformity and compliance. My understanding is that conformity unfavors democracy, but compliance tolerates democracy. Am I right?--222.67.213.94 (talk) 11:46, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Could some experts please write the section which elaborate.....
the concepts of Conformity assessment and Conformance testing--124.78.229.67 (talk) 13:15, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

On
 * their differences
 * their relations —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.78.229.67 (talk) 13:16, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

I found this....
http://www.incits.org/tc_home/m1htm/docs/m1050067.pdf

but I'm still not happy with the absence of the definition on compliance assessment, although the doc defines the conformity and compliance

while the heaps of the term appear in literature

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=compliance+assessment&num=10&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_allsubj=all&hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1 --222.64.24.62 (talk) 07:12, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Is the conformity assessment and compliance assessment inter-changable as well ?

Look at the following

http://www.isbsg.org/ISBSGnew.nsf/WebPages/C5908EE2873DA659CA25734E00175B3C --222.64.24.62 (talk) 07:29, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Also, the document only elaborates the terms of conformity and conformance, but not conformity assessment and conformance testing —Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.64.24.62 (talk) 07:15, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Please review my editing...
based on Ref. 1, 2 and 3. Welcome others to debate the concept with the more refs to be provided.--222.67.210.42 (talk) 09:20, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

However, my work experience is telling me that the term of compliance assessment is more appropriate than the term of conformity assessment if which is no difference to conformance testing

Compliance assessment work is more related to the concept of quality assurance whereas conformance testing to that of quality control--222.67.210.42 (talk) 09:40, 12 April 2009 (UTC)