- From: Francois Daoust <fd@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:55:15 +0200
- To: Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group WG <public-bpwg@w3.org>
Hi, Per my ACTION-892, please find below links to two different versions of the Implementation Conformance Statement that should ship with the guidelines. The action was: [[ Prepare an ICS with MUST/MUST NOT (to view if that's a good idea), try to add a "depends on" column, explain "Not applicable" or remove it. ]] I chose to remove the "Not applicable" column. I agree it merely created confusion with no useful outcome. I haven't tried to add a "depend on" column. I am not sure how to do it, and wonder whether that would be of any use in our case anyway. The ICS is generated automatically from the spec (through an XSLT stylesheet). The excerpts are atomic, i.e. one line per normative statement, but that means some sentences needed to be cut into pieces, and some excerpts do look meaningless without context. I prepared two versions of the ICS that matches the latest draft of the guidelines: one that contains both SHOULD-level and MUST-level statements (this includes SHOULD NOT, RECOMMENDED, and the rest of the tribe, of course), and another one that only contains SHOULD-level statements. The rationale for the ICS was to have exceptions to the SHOULD statements explained, and so we had initially restricted the statements to put in the ICS to SHOULD-level statements only. I must say that I now find the "full" version with MUST-level statements as well more useful. Version with SHOULD-level and MUST-level statements: http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/Group/TaskForces/CT/editors-drafts/Guidelines/ics-090622-must Version with SHOULD-level statements only: http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/Group/TaskForces/CT/editors-drafts/Guidelines/ics-090622 (Please ignore the Abstract and Introduction sections for the time being, they do need to be rewritten, in particular for the version that contains SHOULD-level and MUST-level statements) For dizcussion/rezolution: - "SHOULD and MUST" or "SHOULD only"? - publish the ICS directly within the guidelines or as a separate document? - comments to improve the table? Francois.
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