Re: [xslt-conformance] Spreading the Work

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

At 01/10/24 17:25 -0600, Lofton Henderson wrote:
>At 03:45 PM 10/24/01 -0700, Eduardo Gutentag wrote:
>>[...]
>>from a procedural point of view, the product of OASIS TCs should carry a 
>>copyright
>>that allows for "stealing" (their words ;-)
>>(see http://oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.shtml)
>>as long as the copyright and OASIS's name are preserved.
>
>I also wonder if we need to distinguish different cases:
>
>1. wholesale transfer of a test suite, such as might happen with XML
>
>2. taking and modifying bits and pieces (such as I would anticipate for UAAG).
>
>3. borrowing the general idea, but re-implementing the details (e.g., DTD, 
>scripts, etc)
>
>In case #2, I know that UAAG is not interested in our results and 
>reporting parts (Infoset-ize, Canonicalize, compare) -- it doesn't fit at 
>all with how one would test a UA for accessibility conformance.

That's fine ... the "genericization" we did was for the collection of 
files, not how the files are used in our particular situation.

>However, they might want to take our catalog and test case description DTD 
>as a starting point, and modify it for their own test-case description 
>language -- they would throw out some stuff, add some stuff, etc.  And 
>they might want to do something similar with our design for describing the 
>discretionary behavior, and the scripts for combining catalog & discretion 
>to generate a customized suite.

This is precisely where we focused our work on making it generic.  We can 
patriate changes that are suggested if we get the time to make it even more 
useful to other TCs.  In fact, perhaps we can move the generic processes 
"up one level" to the Conformance TC once we iron out some kinks and get 
public comment.

>In other cases, their approach could be closer to #3.

Hopefully their analysis of the scripts we have will provide for 
improvements that they can just use our according to our IPR policies.  We 
hope (at least *I* hope) that the ideas are accepted well and that OASIS is 
seen as a leader in this area.

As I said before, we have been struggling with releasing our first efforts 
for a long time now, and as we got closer to completing things it only made 
sense to delay things "a little bit more" in order to save others effort by 
giving them access to a generic framework.

I'm pleased with the efforts of our committee members ... we just need 
another push or two to get our initial results before the public eye (hint! 
hint! to committee members!!.

........................ Ken


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