Re: ICS for Spec Guidelines

I also am a bit confused.  We agreed that the SpecGL should have an ICS and 
I think that the Checklist with some additions could serve that 
purpose.  However, I think Karl's wording may fit in nicely for how to 
specify claims to the SpecGL.

Lynne

At 06:38 PM 12/3/2002, Lofton Henderson wrote:

>I have one question about this...
>
>At 05:06 PM 12/3/02 -0500, Karl Dubost wrote:
>>[...]
>>Just a proposed wording and solution, I don't know if it makes sense.
>>
>>The QA Framework: Specification Guidelines Specification does not comply 
>>itself to the Guideline 12. Publish an Implementation Conformance 
>>Statement proforma.
>
>Isn't the Spec-Checklist (which is linked from SpecGL),
>
>http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-qaframe-spec-20021108/qaframe-spec-checklist.html
>
>an ICS pro-forma for SpecGL?  The introduction says:
>
>"...intended to be convenient for organizers and evaluators of QA projects 
>in W3C Working Groups, to facilitate assessing specifications against the 
>checkpoints. The table includes spaces for scoring each checkpoint, "yes" 
>(satisfied), "no" (not satisfied), "n/a" (not applicable)."
>
>Regards,
>-Lofton.
>
>
>
>>* CP 12.1
>>I propose something done on the example of UAAG 1.0.
>>
>>***************************
>><p>On [Date], [Specification X] [Status] ([URI]) conforms to <acronym 
>>title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym>'s "<acronym 
>>title="Quality Assurance">QA</acronym> Framework: Specification 
>>Guidelines", http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-qaframe-spec-20021108/. 
>>Conformance level: <a href="QA-checklist.html">[Level-of-Conformance]</a>. </p>
>>
>>* CP 12.2
>>And put it in the 3.2 Conformance definition of  QA Framework: 
>>Specification Guidelines
>>with modification of the wording of this section.
>>
>>A specification conforms to this document by satisfying the following 
>>requirements.
>>         1. The specification has reached one of the three levels of 
>> Conformance.
>>         2. The claim of QA conformance is included in the status section 
>> of the specification as defined in the sample conformance claim.
>>         3. The list of checkpoints covered by the specification itself 
>> in  a specific file QA-checklist.html
>>*************************
>>
>>The 3rd item is to make clear that people didn't apply to a checkpoint 
>>because it was not necessary.
>>
>>
>>--
>>Karl Dubost / W3C - Conformance Manager
>>           http://www.w3.org/QA/
>>
>>      --- Be Strict To Be Cool! ---

Received on Wednesday, 4 December 2002 08:58:33 UTC