At 00/06/02 15:11 -0700, Eduardo Gutentag wrote:
>Please accept my humblest apologies if this has already been discussed
It was only discussed in the brief meeting in San Jose where I shared my
feelings about the work we did with XML conformance.
>and it's a moot point (although it couldn't be moot since there can't have
>been a vote...),
Right ... we haven't yet voted on the scope, but in my proposed
deliverables I specifically left out a testing harness. I believe our
objective is solely to assemble, produce and publish the tests and the
report ... nothing else.
I anticipate organizations like Carmelo's and Lynda's to validate our
efforts by successfully using what we produce ... but at an arm's
length. It is very important to the committee that f they can successfully
use what we've created, then we will have succeeded at our task. I think
with the new rules coming we may need a *third* organization to put our
report into production use in order to claim acceptance ... but we'll
address that when the time comes.
I do not see testing or certification or judgements to be at all in scope
for our work.
>but it was my impression that testing harness is just outside
>of the scope of this TC --
This is my firm belief as well.
>all this without in any way impinging on the
>value of IQTest.
I agree! The technology looks very interesting.
..................... Ken
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