Re: [office] Moving forward on Conformance

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

Thanks for the response.  I hope others could weigh in on how their 
preferences fit into this framework.  I know Dennis sometimes likes to 
find interesting possibilities between my choices, so if he or anyone else 
prefers a B-prime or something like that, please go ahead and define that 
preference.  But I think the underlying questions are the key ones:  What 
products? What conformance classes? What classes apply to what products?

-Rob

> 
> Hi Rob,
> 
> thank you for this summary. I think it very well describes the 
situation.
> 
> What I would like to add here is what you said in another mail, that is, 

> that we must also consider that some more work regarding conformance is 
> done in the OIC TC.
> 
> So here are my preferences.
> 
> On 02/03/09 17:06, robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:
> > 1) For products, I'd like to see us follow C) and define conformance 
for 
> > ODF Documents, Producers, Consumers and Processors.  B) would also be 
> > acceptable.
> 
> My preference is B). The simple reason is that is appears to be 
> difficult to define requirements for processors without specifying what 
> their purpose is.
> 
> I actually could imagine that it may be much easier to define 
> conformance for processors in the OIC TC, where we may define different 
> classes of processors.
> 
> > 
> > 2) For conformance classes, My preference is for C, but B would also 
be 
> > acceptable.  Of the dual-class choices, E is the least offensive.
> 
> C would be my preference, too, but B is also acceptable.
> 
> > 
> > 3) And for the last question, this will depend on what agreement we 
can 
> > arrive to on the other two questions, but I generally want to avoid a 
> > proliferation of conformance classes, with applications as well as 
> > documents.
> 
> I agree to this, too.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Michael
> 
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