Re: [opendocument-users] New question (2): Reference implementation?

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com> wrote on 05/17/2009 10:12:09 AM:

> 
> Re: [opendocument-users] New question (2): Reference implementation?
> 
> >  What we do require is that a specification have
> > three successful implementations which conform to the standard before 
we
> > can vote on it as an OASIS Standard.  A single reference 
implementation is
> > not part of our formal process.
> >
> > That's my answer wearing my TC Chair hat.
> 
> Since the standard has no conformance spec, and very little in the way
> of requirements against which conformance may be measured,
> that means there aren't any successful implementations
> (by this definition).
> 
> 

That is incorrect, Dave.  The standard defines conformance in section 1.4 
"Document Processing and Conformance".

-Rob