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hello All  Next week, several members of this committee and OASIS will be  participating in the Workshop on QA that is being held at NIST and hosted  by NIST, OASIS, and W3C.  The purpose of the Workshop is to provide a forum  for discussion regarding QA of W3C Specifications, building of conformance  test suites, and ways to improve the specifications.  Goals include: - leverage the interests and resources of organizations interested in these  areas, - encourage coordination and cooperation, and - initiate development of a framework and/or guidelines for developing  conformance tests (including how does one submit tests to an effort, how  disputed tests are handled, maintenance)  Additional areas of work for this Committee include working with ebXML  Initiative.  In particular, I will be drafting a general document on  testing for the ebXML Technical Architecture Committee.  The document will  discuss what needs to be addressed, the roles and responsibilities, and the  activities involved in setting up a conformance testing program. If anyone  is interested in helping to contribute to this effort, please let me  know.  Additionally, I will be posting the document to this list for comment.  Finally, if you have any documents related to conformance that would be  helpful to people in understanding conformance, the issues, etc. -  that we  can make available, please send me the URL so that we can reference from  the TCs webpages.  Thanks Lynne