Conformance TC would like your help

[Lynne Rosenthal <lynne.rosenthal@nist.gov>]

Dear TC Chairs

We would like to familiarize you with the OASIS Conformance TC
(http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ioc/)
and invite you and your members to participate with our TC in developing
general conformance guidelines and other documents or tools related to
conformance. 

The OASIS Conformance TC has been at work for a couple of years. 
The TC defines and develops conformance requirements, guidelines, white
papers, and methodologies to enable the development of testable
specifications and conforming implementations.  The TC serves as a
central source of information about conformance and conformance related
topics

We believe it is important that the OASIS TC Chairs are aware of
the efforts of the OASIS Conformance TC and we hope to have your
cooperation and support as well as welcome your participation.  A
goal of the TC is to be a resource for those who are new to conformance
and to help ‘jump start’ conformance efforts as well as to leverage the
efforts of TCs that are already addressing conformance.  The OASIS
TCs can learn from each other and build upon past successes.  In
this way, the OASIS community can leverage current and future efforts in
developing conformance test suites as well as promoting efforts to ensure
clear, unambiguous, testable specifications that can be implemented in a
consistent and correct manner.   

To date, we’ve worked closely with the Security Services TC and the
XSLT/XPath TC in this capacity.  We’re looking forward to working
closely with the other TCs in the near future.

Our next teleconference, Aug 16, will focus on the development of a
Conformance Requirements document for OASIS specifications and the
development of general Guidelines for Testing and
Certification.   If you would like to participate in the
teleconference, please send email to
lynne.Rosenthal@nist.gov,
so we can make sure there are enough phone lines. 


Mark Skall and Lynne Rosenthal
Conformance TC cochairs

(skall@nist.gov) (lynne.rosenthal@nist.gov)