Re: [search-ws] reference implementation

[Mary McRae <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>]

Hi Ray,

  When going for OASIS Standard ballot at least three OASIS organizational members must provide statements of use certifying that they are using or have implemented the specification in accordance with the conformance clauses contained in the specification and state whether or not any interopability tests have been conducted.

From the TC Process:
"Statement of Use", with respect to a specification, is a written statement by an OASIS Organizational Member stating that it is successfully using or implementing that specification in accordance with the conformance clauses specified in Section 2.18, and stating whether its use included the interoperation of multiple independent implementations.

Regards,

Mary

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On Jun 7, 2010, at 5:46 PM, Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress wrote:

> Thank you Mary, but perhaps I mis-spoke and meant to say "conforming
> implementation" which has a much different connotation. Is there a
> requirement for that?  --Ray
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mary McRae [mailto:mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org] 
> Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 5:34 PM
> To: Denenberg, Ray
> Cc: 'OASIS SWS TC'
> Subject: Re: [search-ws] reference implementation
> 
> There is no requirement for a reference implementation; and we discourage a
> TC from creating/choosing one.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mary
> 
> 
> Mary P McRae
> Director, Standards Development
> Technical Committee Administrator
> OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society
> email: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
> web: www.oasis-open.org
> twitter: @fiberartisan  #oasisopen
> phone: 1.603.232.9090
> 
> Standards are like parachutes: they work best when they're open.
> 
> 
> 
> On Jun 7, 2010, at 5:32 PM, Denenberg, Ray wrote:
> 
>> The discussion on SRU about a reference implementation deserves some
> discussion among us.  I am not aware of this as an OASIS requirment. Matthew
> since you mentioned it can you point us to the requirement?  We need to
> understand how "rigorous" it needs to be, as it would be a signifcant burden
> to implement the whole spec particularly before there is any guarantee that
> it will be a standard. 
>> 
>> I'm wondering who among us might be a candidate to produce one of these,
> and the only person who comes to mind is Tony ....
>> 
>> --Ray
>> 
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