- From: Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:13:16 -0500
- To: <www-qa@w3.org>
The XML Core WG reviewed: QA Framework: Specification Guidelines http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-qaframe-spec-20041122/ and has a concern about "classes of products." Specifically, the WG has a problem with: 2.2 Requirement A: Identify who or what will implement the specification. and 4.4 Requirement B: Define how deprecated feature is handled by each class of product. Our problem with the latter is just the "by each class of product" part which reduces to our issue with the former. We find 2.2 Requirement A to be unclear and potentially dangerous. It is not clear how to define a class of product, and it is not clear what the full set of classes of products might be. We don't believe there are (or could be) clear definitions of distinct classes, and we are concerned that any attempt to list classes affected by a spec might end up excluding some products for which the spec should apply. Rather, any product should be evaluated against the spec to determine if the spec applies to it. For example, it isn't clear if xml:id is applicable to an XHTML browser UA. It depends on whether the UA relies on a parser of other xml processor that has implemented xml:id (in which case xml:id doesn't apply directly to the UA) or whether the UA does its own id recognition. In summary, we object to 2.2 Requirement A being mandatory in these Specification Guidelines. We object to 4.4 Requirement B being mandatory as long as it includes the words "by each class of product", but we remove our objection if those words are removed. Paul Grosso for the XML Core WG
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