Another view on conformance?

http://tr.im/gRUC

Rick Jelliffe on Conformance, with a view on ODF.
including:
<quote>Conformance is hard. ISO standards have a constraint that only
"verifiable" statements can be made in normative text: no airy fairy
fluff. And I certainly belong to the camp that says that the clauses
in IT standards (in particular document standards) should not only be
"verifiable" but that they should be objectively and automatically
verifiable in standard ways. </quote>



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Dave Pawson
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