Re: [oiic-formation-discuss] My perspective. display perferct?

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

"Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
wrote on 07/02/2008 01:34:17 AM:

> 2008/7/1  <robert_weir@us.ibm.com>:
> 
> 
> >> Thinking about it further, it also doesn't seem reasonable
to
> >> require that something be a standard before the TC can consider
it.
> >> To be of most value to vendors and to promote best interop,
it seems
> >> obvious to me to work on standards which are not yet finalized.
> >> Surely the best point at which to raise interop concerns
with a
> >> standard is before it's finalized/ratified?
> >>
> >
> > That would be ideal, I think.  OASIS encourages co-implementation
during the
> > development of a standard.  In fact, a TC must point to
successfuluses of a
> > draft before it can be eligible for vote as an OASIS Standard.
 So although
> > it would be bad to release a conformance test before the corresponding
ODF
> > standard is approved,
> 
> Not bad. Impossible. Co-implementation? No.
> Please test this. I can't tell you what it is, but please test this.
> 
> Nonsense
> 

Surely, we already have co-implementation today on
the ODF TC, and most every other TC in OASIS.  The standard does not
go from 100% undefined to 100% defined overnight.  Some parts are
finished before other parts, and TC's indicate this with the issue of Committee
Drafts and Committee Specifications.  We would obviously write test
cases for the parts that were already defined.

The odd thing is, you know all this.  You've
participated in ODF TC's before.  So why are you saying that this
is impossible?

-Rob