Re: [dxwg] Should the Guidance doc recognise existing, non-interoperable, profiles as valid

Its not the profiles which are non-interoperable - its the descriptions which cannot be interoperable without a canonical description formalism..

so we can retrofit an interoperable description to any prior profile work - so long as those profiles conform to our semantics. 

A "lump of green putty" is not a profile..   a "specification inspired by but not actually interoperable with another spec" is not a profile (even if it wants to use the word in title or description).

Its not our problem to recognise pre-existing profiles - but we can describe those that behave according to the accepted definition.


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