Re: A little respect for "unvalidated"

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

If you've not worked in an industry where validation is a process mandated by 
law that has enough booby traps that it usually requires training to navigate 
rather than a word you can look up in the dictionary or OED, that wouldn't be a 
surprise.

Other industries:  as previously mentioned, so far I can check off 
aircraft/aerospace and medical/biotech/pharma as areas where the definitions I 
posted will be readily recognized.  It's hit and miss in telecom.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>
Well that meaning of invalidated carries an exclusion that I don't normally 
apprehend. I've never read (or used) the word to mean that you (your product, 
service, etc.) had to have previously been in "validated" state.

To me, all it's ever meant is that you have undergone the testing or 
verification procedure this time (whether it's the first-ever or the hundredth) 
and failed.  To me, the key to "invalidated" is only that the attempt has 
occurred in the instance where the term is applied. I've never needed 
"invalidated" to further assert "has undergone the testing in the past and has 
passed/succeeded".

Now I'd wonder if that nuance/baggage carries over to other industries.

What's the OED got to say?   :-)

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