Re: [office] Suggestion from the ISO meeting in Seattle

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

Patrick,

I don't think we can mark something as "implementation-defined" in 
Approved Errata, since that would be adding a new requirement (a 
requirement for the implementation to specify its behavior) on existing 
implementations, something we are not permitted to do under OASIS rules. 

However, "implementation-dependent" would be fine. 

Of course, in ODF 1.2 we are free to say "implementation-defined" if we 
want.

-Rob


Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net> wrote on 09/24/2009 07:49:17 AM:


> 
> Greetings!
> 
> During the ISO discussions in Seattle last week the following suggestion 

> was made for cases where the standard does not or cannot define precise 
> behavior.
> 
> > From ISO 9075-1:2008 SQL/Framework:
> >
> > * *
> >
> > *7.2 Implementation-defined elements*
> >
> > Every part of ISO/IEC 9075 contains an Annex that lists every element 
> > of SQL and its processing that is specified
> >
> > in that part, and is permitted to differ between SQL-implementations, 
> > but is required to be specified by
> >
> > the implementor for each particular SQL-implementation.
> >
> > * *
> >
> > *7.3 Implementation-dependent elements*
> >
> > Every part of ISO/IEC 9075 contains an Annex that lists every element 
> > of SQL and its processing that is mentioned,
> >
> > but not specified in that part, and is thus permitted to differ 
> > between SQL-implementations, but is not
> >
> > required to be specified by the implementor for any particular 
> > SQL-implementation.
> This came up in the context of discussions about corrections to ISO 
> 26300. Particularly areas where in retrospect we were not completely 
> precise and to offer more precision now might create incompatibilities 
> with existing implementations.
> 
> I think it is an interesting suggestion and one that could prove to be 
> useful.
> 
> Hope everyone is having a great week!
> 
> Patrick
> 
> -- 
> Patrick Durusau
> patrick@durusau.net
> Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34
> Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps)
> Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300
> Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)
> 
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