Confused about the purpose of the Interop Profile

[cheriee@exchange.microsoft.com]

This is probably going to come across as one of those stupid newbie questions, so I'll apologize in advance if that's the case.

I've been reading through the Interop Profile document and I'm not sure I understand what I'm reading. Is it supposed to be a new conformance class for ODF 1.1? I read back through a lot of the email from the summer and fall when this was being worked on, prior to my joining the committee, and read through the charter again and have only become less certain about what the purpose of the document is.

Can someone send me some context so I can provide a better review?

Thank you.

Cherie Ekholm