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Subject: RE: [oic] deliverable "state of interoperability"
Test cases are a broadside approach, a kind of wide net. I was thinking more that we want to find people who know where they have documents where interoperability mattered and they failed. Actual experiences of interoperability failures in practice is what I was thinking of, as in your example. This seems like a way to set priorities based on experience, even if anecdotal, rather than an abstract objective measure that comes only after much work. In Belgium, has there been an attempt to ensure that there are particular documents and forms that need to be usable interoperably in civil government, for example? - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Hanssens Bart [mailto:Bart.Hanssens@fedict.be] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 11:24 To: dennis.hamilton@acm.org Cc: OIC TC List Subject: RE: [oic] deliverable "state of interoperability" Hello Dennis, [ ... ] > There is the question about how we identify the state of interoperability, Mm, I assume the only way to identify it objectively is having lots of test cases and having people to send in their results... Since there are billions of documents out there, we can only scratch the surface and hope that people speak up when they spot issues :/ > Having a corpus of representative documents where interoperable use fails > is good too, although we need to make sure the documents of that kind are > important in someone's interoperability situation and not marginal cases > in practice. Absolutely true, the table-in-table construction I was referring, is in fact something I've stumbled upon in real life documents (a template for project managers, formatted with tables, one of them containing another table about which version of the document was distributed to whom) I certainly don't pretend to know all issues or their priorities, so these documents would merely be an example, but I think it would be worthwhile to include or refer to some examples (not necessarily my examples), along with the way the OIC feels it should be dealt with (like you suggested) It makes it more tangible, or at the very least people would have something they can easily disagree upon, so they can fiercely submit their concerns :-) > My appreciation was inspired by the discussions in formulating the charter, > but all extrapolations and misunderstandings are mine. As always, your feedback is greatly valued Best regards, Bart
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