"The essentials of a specification"

Hi,

I found that TimBL's "The essentials of a specification" document [1]
has many similarities with QA WG's SpecGL:
- RFC 2119 conformance keywords usage
- normative/non-normative part of a spec
- definitions of conformance terms

... but with sometimes a slightly different approach:
- it insists more on conformance terms (such as 'well-formed XML 1.0
document') than on classes of product (which would be simply 'a
document' in SpecGL's approach)
- it asks that normative requirements are expressed as a function of
these conformance terms, rather than as a set of constrains on the
classes of products

Just food for thoughts...

Dom

1. http://www.w3.org/1999/09/specification
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