986 2005-01-10 04:13:28 +0000 Conformance section for a technology or for a specification (005) 2005-04-28 11:53:50 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified QA QASpec-GL LC-2004-11-22 All All RESOLVED FIXED http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa-wg/2004Aug/0099.html LC, SpecGL P2 normal --- 1 karl karl karl oldest_to_newest 2796 0 karl 2005-01-10 04:13:28 +0000 Description From monolithic specification, WG are producing more and more multi-documents specifications. Each document being having its own life with dependencies with others. Though the division in many documents is not necessary a functionnal division (module, profile, level), but it could be a topic division. Let's imagine for example that the conformance section of a technology is one document. How to make clear where and when the conformance section or sections should go? Comment David Marston: "when a document is separate from another with which it was originally thought to be associated, it takes on a life of its own. " Proposal David Marston: 3. Each Recommendation addresses conformance. Those that don't specify behavior of a Class of Product may simply say that they are informative, but beware: even defining terms or stating principles can be normative if some other document could cite the terms or principles normatively. If your WG issues several Recommendations and some refer normatively to others in the set, try to isolate a Class of Product in each Rec and anticipate that other Recs may cite any individual Rec normatively. Resolution Solved with the notion of Umbrella Specification. 3657 1 dom 2005-04-28 11:53:50 +0000 setting version to LC in case of future use