The BIPM key comparison database Newsletter - No 10 - December 2008
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Dear Reader,

This issue of the KCDB Newsletter marks its tenth edition. I'm delighted with its success. I am sure you will have seen that we have broadened its scope and it's now more of a general BIPM Newsletter with information about other meetings. The main focus still relates to the work we do on the CIPM MRA and we are continually on the look-out for examples of where our readers from the National Metrology Institutes, industrial, and Government circles have been able to take advantage of it practically. Please keep up the steady flow of externally generated stories and comments.

In closing, I am sure you will join me in congratulating Claudine Thomas, as editor, in keeping up the standard, the frequency, and the high level of interesting articles in the Newsletter.

We at the BIPM wish you all a Happy and Successful Year 2009.

Andrew Wallard, Director of the BIPM

To improve future editions of the KCDB Newsletter, please send us feedback at BIPM.KCDB@bipm.org.

The success story of the KCDB Newsletter No 10:
  "The CIPM MRA Working on Traceability in Trade for Time-and-Money Saving" by Dr Sergey A. Kononogov and Prof. Lev K. Issaev (VNIIMS, Russian Federation), and Dr Kwang Hwa Chung and Dr Gun-Woong Bahng (KRISS, Republic of Korea).

Contents
  A new signatory of the CIPM MRA
  A new Regional Metrology Organization: AFRIMETS
  Memorandum of Understanding between the BIPM, OIML and UNIDO
  Feedback from the 21st JCRB
  Policy on traceability for CMCs
  Key and supplementary comparisons
  Calibration and Measurement Capabilities (CMCs)
  A major event at the BIPM: The BIPM Metrology Summer School 2008
  Celebration of the 25th anniversary of the redefinition of the metre
  The 14th International Congress of Metrology