Re: Draft minutes Boston F2F, 4 Friday 2005 AM

Le dimanche 13 mars 2005 à 13:11 -0700, Lofton Henderson a écrit :
> >Section 5 Story ­ identify the group, QAWG.
> >RESOLUTION:  agree with the TAG.  We won’t be so modest and will come out 
> >of the closet.
>
> Summary:  if we're going to take attribution (which is fine with me), we 
> should revise it to be more accurate.

Unless you make a specific proposal, I'd rather keep it as is; while
it's not 100% accurate, I think that our decision to proceed as we
decided to should have been reconsidered if we had done the type of
quality review we're suggesting.

> [...]
> >In Conformance Claim section, add bullet to ‘include a completed ICS; Add 
> >to the example reference to the ICS ­ e.g., An ICS proforma is at <give 
> >URI>.  Clarify the ‘you can claim conformance’ that this is one example of 
> >what the claim can look like it.  Need to move SpecGL’s ICS from 
> >informative to normative.
> 
> Huh?  How can it be normative if it contains no conformance requirements, 
> no test assertions, etc?  Another way to look at it, who would conform to 
> the SpecGL ICS itself, and how?  The ICS itself is not prescriptive of any 
> behavior or characteristic of a spec conforming to SpecGL.

It was decided to make it normative since we decided to require specGL
implementors to fill it up to claim conformance to SpecGL.

> As defined Thursday (Boston), isn't the ICS an (unsubstantiated) claim of 
> spec authors' intent to conform to SpecGL?

... until it is required to claim conformance.

Dom
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