- From: Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:07:34 -0600
- To: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>
- Cc: www-qa@w3.org
At 01:31 PM 7/13/2004 -0400, Al Gilman wrote: >At 6:21 PM -0400 7/12/04, Karl Dubost wrote: >>These definitions are proposition for the QA Glossary following this >>thread and the discussion on the QA WG Teleconference (12 July 2004). >> >>* Deprecated feature >> An existing feature that has become outdated >> and is in the process of being phased out, >> usually in favor of a specified replacement. >> Deprecated features are no longer recommended >> for use and may cease to exist in future >> versions of the specification. >> >>* Obsolete feature >> An existing or deprecated feature has ceased to >> exist and that is listed for historical purpose. > >Was there any discussion as to why the processing policy during phase-out, >to wit: > >- emitters, being strict, should not emit >- acceptors, being loose, should accept > >wound up not included in this definition? Some think that processing policy should not be part of the definition. Rather, it should be dealt with in the "Principle" bits and the "Good Practice" bits (these bits are the "rules" of SpecGL). -Lofton. >If in fact this is what processors are desired to do about this feature, >simply >saying "are no longer recommended" is unnecessarily vague and thereby >misleading. > >How the feature is regarded is IMHO less important for the definition >than what processors are asked to do concerning this feature as the >specification of behavior apprpriate for [sustained] interoperation. > >'deprecated' is a middle state in a two-phased withdrawal of support for a >feature. If we don't spell out the nature of the policy between the two >events, >I don't think we captured the concept. > >Al > >>For the discussion on implications about the use of deprecated, obsolete. >>I will write a detailed email. >> >> >>-- >>Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/ >>W3C Conformance Manager >>*** Be Strict To Be Cool *** >> >> >>content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; >> name=PGP.sig >>content-description: Ceci est une signature électronique PGP >>content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig >>content-transfer-encoding: 7bit >> >>Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:PGP 29.sig (pgDS/ ) (0005CDA2) >
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