Re: some questions about version information in the test suite

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C. M. Sperberg-McQueen writes:

>> (2) eliminate the implDe attribute, and (3) change the enumerated
>> values of expected/@validity from 'valid, invalid, notKnown' to
>> 'valid, invalid, notKnown, impl-defined, impl-dependent,
>> unspecified'

I will respond at more length to the original message, but wrt this
proposed change I would point out that the WG considered a similar
change six months ago and decided against it, because the current
values of expected/@validity correspond to the three allowed values of
the [validity] PSVI property, and are intended to be checked against
it.

We chose instead to continue interpreting that attribute as specifying
what the _author_ of the test expected, and then using a separate
attribute (doesn't have to be a boolean @implDe -- if the range of
cases you want to cover (impl-defined, impl-dependent, unspecified)
can really be adequately distinguished, then make them the values of a
defaults-to-vanilla attribute called @status or some such).

ht
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