- From: Williams, Stuart <skw@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 10:37:12 +0100
- To: "'John Ibbotson'" <john_ibbotson@uk.ibm.com>
- Cc: xmlp-comments@w3.org
John, Apologies for not being on the call last night and participating in the closure of Issue 36. Given the text in the referenced email: <quote> "An implementation may be said to be SOAP 1.2 conformant if and only if it satisfies the conformance requirements specified in SOAP 1.2 specification. The W3C does not at this time provide for any comprehensive means of testing for such conformance." </quote> ...which I take to be the basis of closing the issue, I can find *no* stated 'conformance requirements' in the editors copies of SOAP 1.2 spec. They are not collected together and there is not statement about MUST's, MAYs, SHOULDs etc that relates their use to notions of conformance. A search of RFC 2119 for the words 'conform' and 'conformance' yields no occurences. At present inclined to think that the resolution of Issue 36 somewhat duck the requirement raised by R301a [1]. I would prefer that we give guidance in the spec. on how to recognise a conformance requirement - Is it just the MUSTs? Is the the MUST and SHOULDs? Have we used the imperatives in a disciplined and consistent enough way throughout that they can be used to recognise all 'conformance requirements'? Regards Stuart [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlp-reqs/z301a > -----Original Message----- > From: John Ibbotson [mailto:john_ibbotson@uk.ibm.com] > Sent: 24 April 2002 21:40 > To: xmlp-comments@w3.org; xml-dist-app@w3.org > Subject: [xml-dist-app] <none> > > > Issue 36 states that: > > --------------| > > |Since SOAP1.1 | > > |defines only a| > > |"modular | > > |packaging | > > |model" and | > > |"encoding | > > |mechanisms", | > > |conformance | > > |with SOAP1.1 | > > |can be viewed | > > |as | > > |"validation" | > > |conformance | > > |(as in DTD or | > > |Schema | > > |validation). | > > |"XML Protocol | > > |requirements" | > > |is suggesting | > > |a more | > > |rigorous | > > |conformance | > > |test which | > > |includes | > > |semantics | > > |defined in | > > |in-scope usage| > > |scenarios, | > > |i.e. certain | > > |types of | > > |behavior. | > > --------------| > > The working group has decided to close this issue by adopting > the proposal > to be found in > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2002Apr/0254.html > > John > > Emerging ebusiness Industry Architecture , > XML Technology and Messaging, > IBM UK Ltd, Hursley Park, > Winchester, SO21 2JN > > Tel: (work) +44 (0)1962 815188 (home) +44 (0)1722 781271 > Fax: +44 (0)1962 816898 > Notes Id: John Ibbotson/UK/IBM > email: john_ibbotson@uk.ibm.com > >
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