Re: Baseline and Conformance

From: <boland@nist.gov> · Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 08:50:58 -0500

How would conformance be demonstrated/known if not through the mechanism of a 
conformance claim?  (NOTE: conformance claims are specifically mentioned in 
the context of conformance in QA SpecGL Rec Section 2: Specifying Conformance 
[1]..)

Do we have a set of "metadata terms" to describe baselines, so that baseline 
knowledge can be communicated as unambiguously and objectively as possible
across multiple parties/interests, and so that baseline information can 
be "managed" effectively?

Apologies if these items have been discussed previously.. 

Thanks and best wishes
Tim Boland NIST 

[1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-qaframe-spec-20050817/#specifying-
conformance  

Quoting Gregg Vanderheiden <gv@trace.wisc.edu>:

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> Since we would need to make these changes in the conformance section I am
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> I had hoped to have a baseline description doc done too but until we discuss
> this - there are a couple key questions I can't write up.
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> So the plan
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> 1 - cover this in today's call
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> 2 - make the changes in the front-matter that we need to release the draft. 
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> 3 - fix up draft of baseline doc  and release draft for comment and
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> 4 - next week discuss and finalize the baseline doc 
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> Talk to you soon
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> Gregg
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