- From: Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 13:29:50 -0400
- To: <public-xml-core-wg@w3.org>
We have received a response to our comment on the QA Framework spec (reproduced below). By way of review, we had said: It is not clear how to define a class of product, and it is not clear what the full set of classes of products might be. We don't believe there are (or could be) clear definitions of distinct classes, and we are concerned that any attempt to list classes affected by a spec might end up excluding some products for which the spec should apply. For example, it isn't clear if xml:id is applicable to an XHTML browser UA. It depends on whether the UA relies on a parser of other xml processor that has implemented xml:id (in which case xml:id doesn't apply directly to the UA) or whether the UA does its own id recognition. The QA WG has said: The QA Working Group thinks that clarifying the extent to which a specification is expected to list its classes of products - namely, for those for which it defines conformance requirements - should address the XML Core Working Group concerns. and then they twiddled the wording in the spec somewhat. I don't personally feel any better about the spec now than I did before, but maybe it's just me. What do other people think about this? paul -----Original Message----- From: Karl Dubost [mailto:karl@w3.org] Sent: Tuesday, 03 May, 2005 11:09 To: www-qa@w3.org Cc: Paul Grosso Subject: Answer to Paul Grosso about Classes of Products Dear Paul, Thanks for your comments on the Last Call version of the QA Framework: Specification Guidelines[0] - 22 November 2004 After two weeks from now (on May 18, 2005), the lack of answer will be considered as if you had accepted the comment. Thank you for your SpecGL review comments [1]. We appreciate your concerns expressed about "classes of products". Your issue regarding "classes of products" was entered as issue #1052 [2]. The QA Working Group accepted the comment, and we have revised the wording around Good Practice 01 [3], Good Practice 03 [4], and the Glossary [5] to clarify the definition and scope of "classes of products". [0] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-qaframe-spec-20041122/ [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa/2005Jan/0025 [2] http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=1052 [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-qaframe-spec-20050428/#conformance-model-gp [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-qaframe-spec-20050428/#conformance-claim-gp [5] http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-qaframe-spec-20050428/#glossary -- Karl Dubost QA Working Group Chair http://www.w3.org/QA/WG/
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