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Bug 8280 - All: editorial: conformance boilerplate
Summary: All: editorial: conformance boilerplate
Status: CLOSED REMIND
Alias: None
Product: WS-Resource Access
Classification: Unclassified
Component: All (show other bugs)
Version: FPWD
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: notifications mailing list for WS Resource Access
QA Contact: notifications mailing list for WS Resource Access
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Reported: 2009-11-13 19:26 UTC by Gilbert Pilz
Modified: 2015-06-20 16:34 UTC (History)
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Description Gilbert Pilz 2009-11-13 19:26:27 UTC 
The "Conformance" section of all our specs has the following paragraph:

"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."

It's not clear that "MUST understand" means that the receiver must support the OPTIONAL elements and attributes.

Proposal:

"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."
Comment 1 Robert Freund 2009-12-09 10:11:14 UTC 
2009-11-17 resolved as proposed
Comment 2 Jackie 2015-06-20 16:34:07 UTC 
Please make my changes
Comment 3 Jackie 2015-06-20 16:34:57 UTC 
Please make my changes