- From: <David_Marston@lotus.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:04:44 -0400
- To: www-qa@w3.org
Dimitris wrote: >3. It is not clear who (normatively speaking) does the best job in >interpreting the specifcation in question ((which is why the DOM TS ML >Schema is generated directly from the DOM specs). Is it the WG who >wrote the spec? Is it a trusted third party? Is it the member companies? >I believe this to be the most serious problem. I agree completely. Specifically, a third party can do a better job than the WG by trying to deduce test assertions from the written normative documents (at CR stage or later). Inevitably, the WG reaches a consensus or "understanding" on some fine points that the Recommendation does not convey. An attempt to write test cases can expose such gaps just as an attempt to develop a working implementation would do. .................David Marston
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