RE: [xml-dev] standards

Yup. Compliance is when they provably do, IMO.

The person asking this question needs to understand that 
different organizations that issue recommendations, specifications, 
and standards have different if overlapping meanings for 
terms like 'conformance' and 'compliance' and different 
means if any to prove that a given artifact does conform or comply.

Beware of first order controls applied to second order systems.

len


From: Rich Salz [mailto:]

> A standard is where some interested parties agree on the details
> of a technology. Conformance is whether they actually do implement
> those details.

I'd phrase it as
	Conformance is when they (sometimes provably) claim to implement a
set 
of those details.

channeling for Len...
	/r$