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Karl Best |
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OASIS Director of Technical Operations |
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The mission of OASIS |
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Our interest and experience in Conformance |
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Promote the use of structured information
technologies by making them more useful |
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Conformance |
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Vertical Schemas / DTDs |
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Infrastructure/Interoperability |
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Horizontal initiatives |
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Standards are created under an open, democratic,
vendor-neutral process |
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Any interested parties may participate, comment;
all activities visible to the public |
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No one organization can dictate the standard |
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Ensures that standards meet everyone’s needs,
not just largest players’ |
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A Standard standardizes the way things are done |
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Conformance tests ensure that applications
conform to a Standard |
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A Standard used in a non-standard way is no
longer standard |
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Conformance is an integral part of making
standards more useful |
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XML Conformance Test Suite |
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July 1999 |
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DOM Level 1 Conformance Test Suite |
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February 2001 |
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XML 2nd Ed. Conformance Test Suite |
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March 2001 |
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See
http://www.oasis-open.org/tech_work/index.shtml |
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Interoperability/Conformance |
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Chair: Lynne Rosenthal, NIST |
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Purpose: write guidelines, white papers, etc. to
provide guidance for other conformance committees. |
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See
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ioc/index.shtml |
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XML Conformance |
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Chair: Mary Brady, NIST |
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Purpose: create conformance test suites for XML |
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Recently released XML v1.0 2nd
Edition Conformance Test Suite |
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http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xml-conformance/index.shtml |
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XSLT/XPath Conformance |
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Chair: Ken Holman, Crane Softwrights |
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Purpose: create conformance test suites for
XSLT/XPath |
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http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xslt/index.shtml |
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SVG/WebCGM Conformance |
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Chair: Lofton Henderson, CGM Open |
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Purpose: create conformance test suites for
SVG/WebCGM |
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See http://www.cgmopen.org |
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Both W3C and OASIS are interested in conformance
work |
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Both organizations have something to contribute |
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We should work together, based on our respective
strengths and abilities |
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Expertise and technical resources in core
specification areas |
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Interest in the quality of those core
specifications |
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Experience in conducting conformance technical
committees, and members’ experience in creating test suites |
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A second opinion; separate the conformance test
development from the specification development |
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Broader scope: OASIS’ mission is more than just
the Web |
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Open membership and technical process |
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http://www.oasis-open.org |
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http://xml.coverpages.org/ |
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http://www.xml.org |
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http://www.ebxml.org |
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http://www.cgmopen.org |
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Karl Best
+1 978.667.5115 x206
karl.best@oasis-open.org |
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