hi @stefkeB
I see that the certification is again a hot topic. I had a similar case here some time ago.
In my last EIRs I am simply avoiding the sentences of defining that a software should be certified according to bsI. The reasons you have listed in your post. Even if a software is certified, there are problems with exportign an IFC for that software.
What is important for me in EIR, is to state that the software should export either IFC2x3 or IFC4 and in the future IFC4.3. I need interoperability between the software as long as the software can generate the schema in relative “clean” way.
How many software programs were out in the market in 2017 exchanging IFC schema but with a pending status for certification? This is also another aspect, which I don’t quite understand, with the certification.