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RE: Realistic proposals to the W3C?

  • From: James Robertson <jamesr@s...>
  • To: xml-dev@x...
  • Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:19:23 +1000

w3c certificate
At 22:16 17/10/2000, Jonathan.Robie@S... wrote:

>James Robertson wrote:
>
> > At 08:24 17/10/2000, Jonathan.Robie@S... wrote:
>
> >> In fact, Tim B-L strongly prefers to have two interoperable
> >> implementations. It keeps the IETF people from snickering if something
> >> goes wrong. The problem has to do with proving interoperability.
> >> I think it would be healthy to see this as a formal requirement.
>
> > I'm glad to here that _he_ "prefers" two
> > interoperable implementations.
> >
> > He decided not to require this in the
> > case of, say, XSL:FO?
>
>It is on a case-by-case basis, as I understand it. And there are no formal 
>test suites in most groups.

Isn't this something that should be fixed?

My personal opinion is that a standard should
not be released in final form until:

* Two independent implementations exist.
* A formal test suite has been developed.

This should be made an absolute requirement
for _all_ candidate standards.

Further, to a previous poster's suggestion:
how about the W3C develop a tightly-controlled
"W3C compliance certificate" that would be
awarded to implementations that pass the
test suites?

Like, for example, Java certification, Windows
certification, MacOS certification, etc, etc ...

J


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James Robertson
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