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    <bug>
          <bug_id>8280</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2009-11-13 19:26:27 +0000</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>All: editorial: conformance boilerplate</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2015-06-20 16:34:57 +0000</delta_ts>
          <reporter_accessible>1</reporter_accessible>
          <cclist_accessible>1</cclist_accessible>
          <classification_id>1</classification_id>
          <classification>Unclassified</classification>
          <product>WS-Resource Access</product>
          <component>All</component>
          <version>FPWD</version>
          <rep_platform>All</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>All</op_sys>
          <bug_status>CLOSED</bug_status>
          <resolution>REMIND</resolution>
          
          
          <bug_file_loc></bug_file_loc>
          <status_whiteboard></status_whiteboard>
          <keywords></keywords>
          <priority>P2</priority>
          <bug_severity>normal</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>---</target_milestone>
          
          
          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter name="Gilbert Pilz">gilbert.pilz</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="notifications mailing list for WS Resource Access">public-ws-resource-access-notifications</assigned_to>
          <cc>dug</cc>
          
          <qa_contact name="notifications mailing list for WS Resource Access">public-ws-resource-access-notifications</qa_contact>

      

      

      

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          <long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>29551</commentid>
    <comment_count>0</comment_count>
    <who name="Gilbert Pilz">gilbert.pilz</who>
    <bug_when>2009-11-13 19:26:27 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>The &quot;Conformance&quot; section of all our specs has the following paragraph:

&quot;For any message defined by this specification, any OPTIONAL elements or attributes in the message MAY be used by senders of the message, however receivers of those messages MUST understand those OPTIONAL elements and attributes, unless other behavior is explicitly defined by this specification.&quot;

It&apos;s not clear that &quot;MUST understand&quot; means that the receiver must support the OPTIONAL elements and attributes.

Proposal:

&quot;For any message defined by this specification, any OPTIONAL elements or attributes in the message MAY be used by senders of the message, however receivers of those messages MUST support those OPTIONAL elements and attributes, unless other behavior is explicitly defined by this specification.&quot;</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>30037</commentid>
    <comment_count>1</comment_count>
    <who name="Robert Freund">bob</who>
    <bug_when>2009-12-09 10:11:14 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>2009-11-17 resolved as proposed</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>121263</commentid>
    <comment_count>2</comment_count>
    <who name="Jackie">jackiewindsor09</who>
    <bug_when>2015-06-20 16:34:07 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Please make my changes</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>121343</commentid>
    <comment_count>3</comment_count>
    <who name="Jackie">jackiewindsor09</who>
    <bug_when>2015-06-20 16:34:57 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Please make my changes</thetext>
  </long_desc>
      
      

    </bug>

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