Re: Conformance Disclaimer

Mark,

A new issue, #105, has been entered into the QAWG Issues List:

http://www.w3.org/QA/WG/qawg-issues-html#x105

Discussion is welcome, on this (IG) mail list.

Regards,
-Lofton.

At 12:24 PM 12/11/02 -0500, Mark Skall wrote:

>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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