- From: John Kemp <john.kemp@nokia.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:53:56 -0500
- To: ext Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- CC: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
ext Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:23:00 +0100, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com> > wrote: >> I think you are talking about "uniformity" when you use the word >> "interoperability". > > FWIW, the W3C generally uses the word "interoperability" where you say > "uniformity". See e.g. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/#crec Nonetheless, I think Larry's distinction is a useful one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interoperability vs. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/uniformity (for example) My understanding of this distinction at the specification level is that the technical specification(s) should provide the interface at which two implementations will interoperate. The "application statement" (which I have personally previously referred to as "implementation guidelines") then defines uniform behaviour across implementations within an "implementation class" with respect to the defined interface. - johnk
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