M Greenaway said:But if a standard ceases to actually tell us to do anything then surely it ceases to be a standard.
I'm not sure what to make of this. The standard - 1994 and 2000 revisions both - tell us to do plenty, it just doesn't tell us how. The 2000 revision actually caused our organization to do more work - but it's value added and we were able to eliminate a lot of unnecessary things we were doing before "just to satisfy an auditor".