Re: [oiic-formation-discuss] OASIS Guidelines to Writing Conformance Clauses

["Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>]

2008/6/23  <robert_weir@us.ibm.com>:
>
> Last year the OASIS Technical Advisory Board (TAB) wrote up a "Guidelines to
> Writing Conformance Clauses".  This was to support the new OASIS policy
> around conformance clauses:
>
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#specQuality
>
> "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)."
>
> This TC Process addition was added after ODF 1.0 and ODF 1.1 were approved.
>  ODF 1.2 will be enhanced to conform to this new requirement.  Any
> discussion of ODF conformance properly belongs on that discussion list, not
> here.


Which ought to put this lists discussions on hold until someone resolves this?

This list is discussing interop and conformance? (According to its title)

If discussion of conformance should properly be on ??? some other
discussion list, what the heck are we doing Rob?


regards


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