[BBF Standards] safety and security standards

[Bryan Bishop]

On Monday 04 February 2008, Markus Schmidt wrote:
> - safety standards (security standards)
> If yes I would be interested to join, if not may I ask if there is  
> anybody out there interested in joining a group on this issues?
> Obviously the issues mentioned in the list are interrelated and to do
>   some work on safety and security issues we would need to interact
> with other groups as well, first of those dealing with the
> - definition of a BioBrick part

Do you mean a way to classify which parts maintain certain safety 
standards and which parts do not? We cannot ensure safety, since safety 
assumes that there is no possibility for the emergence of novel 
functionality given different contexts, which you mention next (as 
follows).

> but also those dealing with
> - cellular environment, context, chassis (e.g., genotype, culture  
> conditions)
> and of course others as the BBF undertaking is developing.
> So please let me know if something is already going on or if you
> would   like to join a group on that!

This seems to warrant the definition of laboratory measurement 
utilities, their callobrations, and perhaps even their general designs.

- Bryan
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