Re: conformance vs. compliance

Le ven 09/08/2002 à 17:49, Mark Skall a écrit :
> Most people use the two terms synonymously.  Let's not proliferate 
> additional terms. We should encourage the use of "conformance".  That's the 
> word we use.  There's enough incompatibility of terminology already.  By 
> defining compliance (as identical to conformance or very much like it) 
> we're encouraging usage of two words to say the same thing and thus 
> encouraging (more) confusion.

What about an entry to the Glossary stating that compliance is a synonym
of conformance that the QA WG doesn't encourage to use? It would both
avoid that this question arises again and sets the idea clear on which
word should be used.

Dom
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