- From: Mark Skall <mark.skall@nist.gov>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 16:44:13 -0500
- To: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>, "www-qa@w3.org" <www-qa@w3.org>
At 03:36 PM 1/29/02 -0500, Karl Dubost wrote: >So a good conformance clause could say: > A compliant user agent to the version X+1 SHOULD implement > deprecated features of version X. > A compliant authoring tool to the version X+1 MUST NOT implement > deprecated feature of version X. > >Does it make sense? I think to be consistent with Rob's point, it should (or is it shall) be "A compliant user agent to the version X+1 SHALL (rather than SHOULD) implement deprecated features of version X." I think the second one should read "A compliant authoring tool to the version X+1 MUST NOT implement deprecated feature of any prior version." >-- >Karl Dubost / W3C - Conformance Manager > http://www.w3.org/QA/ > > --- Be Strict To Be Cool! --- > **************************************************************** Mark Skall Chief, Software Diagnostics and Conformance Testing Division Information Technology Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8970 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8970 Voice: 301-975-3262 Fax: 301-590-9174 Email: skall@nist.gov ****************************************************************
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