RE: [emergency] Statement of Use

["David RR Webber \(XML\)" <david@drrw.info>]

Elysa,

 

OASIS changed the rules here from previously - when ANY statement of use was acceptable.

 

Now they want some level of conformance clauses in the specification itself.

 

"

A specification that is approved by the TC at the Public Review Draft, Committee Specification or OASIS Standard level must include a separate section, listing a set of numbered conformance clauses, to which any implementation of the specification must adhere in order to claim conformance to the specification (or any optional portion thereof).*

"

 

They have some samples of such conformance clauses they have in mind.

 

I'm inclined to agree with Rex - that creating actual XML instances for your own use purposes - coupled with validation and documentation that forinstance a CAM template can then enforce against those samples - should cover off a use statement - in that this shows that the specification actually works for a real scenario.

 

I believe that is the most important thing these statements provide - is that people know the specification has actually been tried in practice - rather than just being entirely theoretical.

 

Thanks, DW

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [emergency] Statement of Use
From: Elysa Jones <ejones@warningsystems.com>
Date: Tue, January 22, 2008 12:44 pm
To: emergency@lists.oasis-open.org


"Statement of Use

", with respect to a specification, is a written statement by an OASIS Organizational Member stating that it is successfully using or implementing that specification in accordance with the conformance clauses specified in Section 2.18 *, and stating whether its use included the interoperation of multiple independent implementations.