Draft Conformance Clause [ACTION-245]

Per ACTION-245, I've drafted a conformance clause for the
specification.  We might tinker further and embellish it as is,
e.g., done in [1], but I think the current text is enough for the
FPWD.

Here's the text:

| Conformance with this Specification
| 
| The conformance requirements of this document are found in its
| Requirements and Good Practices. The Requirements are written in the
| imperative voice and denote mandatory conformance requirements. They
| are equivalent to the familiar MUST statements in the RFC2119 [RFC
| 2119] style. In addition to Requirements, this document contains
| Good Practices. Good Practices use the same imperative voice, but
| are optional. They are equivalent to SHOULD or RECOMMENDED
| statements in the RFC2119 style.
| 
| Requirements and Good Practices are scoped by Applicability clauses:
| These clauses characterize the products that can claim conformance
| to a given Requirement or Good Practice. Relevant product classes
| include Web Sites and Web User Agents. The Applicability clauses
| identify further constraints, e.g. on the interaction modalities
| exposed by a Web User Agent.
| 
| For a product to claim conformance with this specification, all
| Requirements whose Applicability clauses are fulfilled must be
| implemented.
| 
| One way to satisfy the Requirements and Good Practices is to
| implement one or more of the suggested techniques given for each
| Requirement and Good Practice. Note that this is not the only way to
| satisfy the Requirement or Good Practice.

  -- http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/wiki/ConformanceClause

1. http://www.w3.org/TR/qaframe-spec/#conformance
-- 
Thomas Roessler, W3C  <tlr@w3.org>

Received on Monday, 4 June 2007 10:56:05 UTC