- From: Mark Skall <mark.skall@nist.gov>
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 15:07:47 -0400
- To: Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>
- Cc: www-qa@w3.org
>In my view, all of GL9 (extensions) is about functional extensions to the >technology. It is not about ways in which a spec's conformance model (or >conformance policy), per se, might exceed and extend SpecGL's concepts. A >new DoV, or a generic catch-all DoV, is about the latter. I strongly disagree. From SpecGL " An extension to a specification is a mechanism to incorporate functionality beyond what is defined in a specification." You're interpreting "functionality" too narrowly. The intent is to allow implementations to do things above and beyond the requirements in the standard. We're now talking about extending SpecGL in an implementation of it. Our "functionality" are all the requirements in SpecGL (everything with a conformance requirement in the form of "MUST". Implementations of SpecGL are specifications and when these specifications include additional concepts that were not enumerated in SpecGL, that's clearly an extension. **************************************************************** 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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