The needs for standards: technical terms, materials, characterization and test procedures

The first urgent need is for using words that have a physical meaning and not only that belong to some particular technical fields. Hence, in electrotechnics common words are conditioning, partial discharges, hold off voltage, breakdown voltage, heterocharges, and homocharges. Other urgent needs deal with material characterization. In the field of space charge characterization, the charge density that is often reported is about six orders of magnitude lower than what can be actually stored in a dielectric. Another step deals with testing procedures. In the field of electrical insulation, procedures have no link with the material characteristics as deduced for example from space charge characterization. The need is for linking the deterministic parameters of the material behavior with the testing conditions and from both measurement types to determine the failure probability.