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[Juan Cruellas]

Dear all, The co-chairs of the TC would like to advance in the decission making process on the interoperability tests. This message identifies a number of issues that we propose to discuss at the TC level and that we think may help in clarifying the scope and the way in which the interop tests may be conducted. Please feel free to add any additional issue that you consider relevant to be discussed for reaching this goal. Among other relevant issues there are two that we would like to comment here: 1. The way in which the interoperability tests will be conducted. 2. The profiles on which the TC will conduct interop tests. 1. WAY OF CONDUCTING INTEROP TESTS On the first one, we initially envisage three potential situations which would make it possible different ways: a. For a certain profile there is more than one tool that implements the same relevant feature. In this case, the way for conducting the tests would be the expected one in interoperability tests on tools: once specified the test cases, each tool would generate requests and the others would generate the correspondent responses. b. For a certain profile there is only one tool that implements certain features. In this case we could conduct a let us say kind of "tool-human being" interop tests. This could consist in that one party (tool or human being) would generate requests and the other (human being or tool) would generate corresponding responses....well, in the case of a human being, the responses would obviously be qualitative: would indicate what that human being has understood from the request and a detailed description of what a server should, in his/her opinion do, generate and give back to the requester.... c. For a certain profile there is not any tool implementing features. Then the only thing that we could do here is a kind of interop between human beings for checking if they have actually understood the same things after having read the protocol. Would you see any other way to conduct the interop tests? if so, could you please describe them? 2. PROFILES TO BE CHECKED. As for the profiles to be checked, well, ideally if we could incorporate all of them that would be great...but this greatly depends on agreeing the way of conducting the tests and the willingness of the different TC members to participante in them. We would like to suggest to start making a poll for knowing the exact situation of each TC member. Could you please let us know: a. Tools that implement some profile of the DSS-X? if so, what profiles exactly and whether it is a tool that supports all the features of the profile or only some of them? b. Are you willing to participate in the interop tests? and if so, in the tests of which profile(s) would you like to be involved? Could you please react to this message by email so that at the next call we have been able to exchange some views and we may have made some progress on the issue? As mentioned above, please feel free to raise any issue different to the ones that we have mentioned and that you feel that are relevant for the interop tests. Best regards Stefan and Juan Carlos.