- From: Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>
- Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 10:31:27 -0600
- To: Dominique Hazaël-Massieux <dom@w3.org>, Mark Skall <mark.skall@nist.gov>
- Cc: Art.Barstow@nokia.com, www-qa@w3.org
At 05:53 PM 8/9/02 +0200, Dominique Hazaël-Massieux wrote: >[...] >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. This is the solution I like best. To answer Alex's later suggestion "explain why" -- I would think it enough to say that we're deprecating it within the Framework documents (hence within QA) for the sake of consistent terminology (see SpecGL checkpoint 13.4, "Use the same words to express the same ideas."). If it is felt necessary that we explain why we chose conformance versus compliance, we could point to the (currently greater) legacy of abuse of "compliance". -Lofton.
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