RE: [rights] Core, Standard Extension,Conformance and Profiles - A non political discussion

["DuCharme, Bob (LNG)" <bob.ducharme@lexisnexis.com>]

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Krishna,

 

Could you discuss the distinction between base and standard extensions a little? As we sort features, I assume we'd want to have some guidelines to help determine whether something was better off in the former or latter category, and I was wondering what you had in mind.

 

Bob DuCharme
Consulting Software Engineer, LexisNexis
Data Architecture, Editorial Systems and Content Engineering

-----Original Message-----
From: Krishna Sankar [mailto:ksankar@cisco.com]
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 7:54 AM
To: rights@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [rights] Core, Standard Extension, Conformance and Profiles - A non political discussion :o)

Hi all,

 

    Here is my (technical) understanding on the above topic.

 

    a)    The core as it stands now, is a framework. It consists of many abstract types and relationships between them. Wouldn't make any sense to make the core mandatory or even a base for conformance.

 

    b)    The standard extensions are a little more concrete, they add a few more supporting elements.

 

    c)    Which means we need to develop profiles as basis for implementation and hence conformance.

 

    d)    Different profiles could be disjoint, based on a light-weight hierarchy. i.e. have a base profile (which everyone should implement) and then different profiles which could build on each other or stand by themselves.

 

    e)    For starters, I see three profiles - Base Profile, Core Profile (= Base + Core Spec) and a standard extensions profile (=Base+Core Spec+Std Extensions Spec or Core Profile + Std Extensions Spec)

 

    f)    Now we can discuss conformance. The conformance would be based on profiles and o the profiles document would say what conformance means. May be there are levels of conformance for each of the profiles. Of course, the Base Profile would need to be a binary conformance or in other words the Base Profile has mandatory full conformance.

 

just some thoughts.

 

cheers

 

BTW, am in Europe doing some EU security work and so missed all the excitement at the GB meeting.