- From: Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 16:23:30 -0600
- To: "David Marston/Cambridge/IBM" <david_marston@us.ibm.com>, www-qa-wg@w3.org
In the telcon, we made a distinction, but perhaps you won't agree with it: * "Discretionary" (we thought) refers to items where two or more behaviors are enumerated, and the choice is left to the implementation. * "Intentionally vague" refers to explicitly completely undefined items, such as "...viewer behavior is implementation dependent". -Lofton. At 04:51 PM 6/20/02 -0400, David Marston/Cambridge/IBM wrote: >I can't help commenting on this one: > >Checkpoint 1.5(1.6) > >Okay, but the term "vague" needs to be changed to something a little > >clearer, like intentionally undefined. > >If it's "intentionally undefined" then it's a discretionary item. >Those are already covered under a different checkpoint. > >In the past, Kirill and I have used the term "vague" only to apply >to things that are UNintentionally undefined, hence a mistake. >.................David Marston
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