RE: conformance vs. compliance

At 12:38 PM 8/9/02 -0400, Art.Barstow@nokia.com wrote:

>How about adding Compliance to the Glossary and in its definition
>say something like:
>
>[[
>Within the QA Activity, Compliance is synonomous
>with Conformance but that for consistency, the
>Activity uses Conformance.
>]]


I like the idea, but how about "to avoid the proliferation of more than one 
term referring to the same concept" the Activity uses Conformance.
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Received on Friday, 9 August 2002 13:22:50 UTC