To strengthen our argument that the standards should be re-engineered, we analyse whether they - as they are stated - adhere to good practice with respect to system analysis and requirements engineering. Our goal is not to say whether we agree or disagree with the standards. Our aim is to show that the way in which the standards are expressed is very poor, in the sense that it makes it almost impossible for them to achieve both their objectives, as defined by the CoE, and our objectives, as outlined in this paper. The second part of our technical work will be to analyse the possibility of re-engineering the standards in order to improve the way in which they are expressed. We demonstrate that a simple restructuring is an inexpensive first step in the reverse engineering process.