conformance TC - Paris agenda

["Lynne S. Rosenthal" <lynne.rosenthal@nist.gov>]

Hello all

As you know we will have an Introductory Meeting in Paris, the afternoon of June 14.  The time is not yet set (any preferences?).  I will post the time and room location soon.  

Below is the proposed Agenda.  Please email me any comments or additions.  

Agenda 
Introductions
Discussion of purpose 
Discussion of deliverables
--White papers on conformance topics
--Guidelines for submitting tests to OASIS
--Test methodologies
Relationship to other groups
--EbXML
--W3C
--Other OASIS committees
Review draft outline on Guideline on submitting tests 
New topics

I will draft and circulate an outline for the Guideline on Submitting Tests to OASIS prior to Paris.  Basically there are 3 cases in which members have or may want to donated conformance tests to OASIS - a) donate tests at the start of a new effort (e.g., XSLT, XML), b) donate tests after a test suite has been released (e.g., XML), c) donate a completed test suite for which there isn't interest in forming a new OASIS TC (e.g., DOM?)
Our idea is that for all these cases, there should be some ground rules, e.g., all tests should be run on several different platforms - this helps to ensure that the tests are independent of the implementation and helps to check the correctness of the tests.  

regards
Lynne