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RE: Convention versus standard

  • From: "Cox, Bruce" <Bruce.Cox@U...>
  • To: "Rick Marshall" <rjm@z...>,"Fraser Goffin" <goffinf@g...>
  • Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:35:10 -0400

RE:  Convention versus standard

The OED supports the notion that a convention is an agreement, implicit or explicit, among a group.  My practice is mine alone, but if all or most of us do it that way (good or bad), it’s a convention, a “coming together” in agreement on this one practice.  “Best practice” specifies what we *ought* to do without regard to whether we do it.  A “standard” is what we have agreed we will in fact do, to some specified level of detail, when we enter that particular game.

 

Bruce B Cox

Manager, Standards Development Division

USPTO/OCIO/SDMG

571-272-9004

 

From: Rick Marshall [mailto:rjm@z...]
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 4:22 AM
To: Fraser Goffin
Cc: xml-dev@l...; Costello, Roger L.
Subject: Re: Convention versus standard

 

Best practice - implies quantitative result in a qualitative direction
Convention - agnostic on both counts and also on any other metric. eg I do something by convention - so it represents my practice, but possibly no one else's.

Fraser Goffin wrote:

I agree. Perhaps it would be better to use the terms 'COMMON practice'
and 'BEST practice' rather than 'convention' (the association seems
more intuitive as does the distinction) ?
 
Fraser.
 
2008/7/21 Liam Quin <liam@w...>:
  
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 01:04:09PM -0400, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
    
Is a convention the same thing as a best practice?
      
No, not in general.  Things that are "usually done" or that are
done by most people are not necessarily the best way to do
things or even good things to do.
 
Liam
 
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