Steve Parker is an official NERC auditor and a member of the National Electric Sector Cybersecurity Organization (NESCO). He commented on my post about NESCO's ineptitude and the nature of the NERC CIPs.
The NERC CIPs are inherently a weak set of standards. The most direct demonstration of the deficiencies of the NERC CIPs is applying them would not have prevented the cyber-related electric outages that have already occurred.