- From: <david_marston@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 10:39:02 -0400
- To: www-qa-wg@w3.org
LR>Why is the Conformance Policy a DoV? It is a consequence of the LR>other DoVs... It's a DoV as the result of a torturous evolution. If I am recalling the history correctly, it incorporates variability in the sense that minimum requirements (something *all* products in a particular class must implement) and strict conformance (*all* products in a class must be functionally the same) were policies that may or may not apply in a particular spec, or only to some classes of product. If the overall policy is seen as the culmination of decisions about the various DoV (plus scope, which is GL 1), then LR's question can be refined to: could the checkpoints of GL 3 plausibly be moved to GL 10? (If so, GL 10 is no longer just a how-to-write-specs GL.) If not, do they need their own GL, or can they be put somewhere else? .................David Marston
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