Conformance Disclaimer

Lofton,

The conformance disclaimer currently states "Failing to achieve conformance 
degree of at least A-conforming does not mean that the subject 
specification is necessarily deficient to its intended purposes, nor does 
it mean that it is an unacceptable basis for the development of quality 
test materials."

I believe this undermines our attempt to get WGs, recs and test suites to 
adhere to, at least Level A.  In fact, it may be in direct contradiction to 
this goal.  Please document an issue to revisit the wording for the 
disclaimer.   The options would be: 1)leave disclaimer as is; 2)reword this 
part of the disclaimer; 3)eliminate this part of the disclaimer

Mark


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Mark Skall
Chief, Software Diagnostics and Conformance Testing Division
Information Technology Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8970
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8970

Voice: 301-975-3262
Fax:   301-590-9174
Email: skall@nist.gov
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Received on Wednesday, 11 December 2002 12:32:01 UTC