FW: Guidelines on Conformance Clauses

["Hal Lockhart" <hlockhar@bea.com>]

Here are two documents intended to provide guidance on the Conformance
Section now required.

If your time is limited, the second one (.doc format) provides the more
specific advice on what is needed.

Hal

-----Original Message-----
From: Mary McRae [mailto:mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org] 
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 9:20 PM
To: '=drummond.reed'
Cc: 'Gabe Wachob'; 'Laurie Rae'
Subject: RE: [tc-editors] TC Process Specification Requirements notice

Hi Drummond,

  I'm attaching a draft of some guidelines that are currently in the
works as well as a document produced by a the
Conformance TC. 

  The Conformance Section should be a new section placed as the last
section in the document (before any appendices).

  Let me know if you have more questions.

All the best,

Mary

> -----Original Message-----
> From: =drummond.reed [mailto:drummond.reed@cordance.net]
> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 9:13 PM
> To: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
> Cc: 'Gabe Wachob'; 'Laurie Rae'
> Subject: RE: [tc-editors] TC Process Specification Requirements notice
> 
> Mary,
> 
> Can you point us (the XRI TC) at any documentation about the 
> conformance clause requirement? We're about to produce XRI Resolution 
> 2.0 Committee Draft 02 and it will be subject to this requirement, so 
> we really need to understand this new requirement and how to conform 
> to it (sic ;-)
> 
> The more details/examples you can provide, the better, as within a 
> week or two we'll be ready to add these conformance requirements.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> =Drummond
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mary McRae [mailto:mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org]
> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 7:48 PM
> To: chairs@lists.oasis-open.org; tc-editors@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [tc-editors] TC Process Specification Requirements notice
> 
> To all TC Chairs and Editors:
> 
> On 22 June the OASIS Board of Directors approved an immediate change 
> to Section 2.18 of the TC Process Policy [1] regarding the requirement

> for XHTML. This requirement has been relaxed to once again permit 
> submission of HTML or XHTML.
> Please note that while OpenOffice and other Open Document Format 
> implementations can save as valid XHTML, the output is not styled 
> properly and therefore not acceptable. Microsoft Office does not have 
> an XHTML export at this time. Any TCs authoring in DITA or DocBook 
> should continue to produce valid (and
> properly-formatted) XHTML, as should any TCs authoring directly in 
> XHTML.
> 
> Also, please remember that the conformance clause requirement went 
> into effect 1 June. All documents submitted for Public Review or 
> Committee Specification Ballot must have a separate Conformance Clause

> section and all Statements of Use must refer to that section.
> 
> "(dd) "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. "
> 
> "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)."
> 
> As always, please feel free to contact me (or your TC Staff
> Contact) with any questions or requests for assistance.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mary
>  
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Mary P McRae
> Manager of TC Administration, OASIS
> email: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
> web: www.oasis-open.org
> phone: 603.232.9090
>  
> [1] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#2.18
> 
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conformance_requirements-v1-1.pdf

New Conformance Guidelines v0-3.doc