Kyle Lussier wrote: [..] > As I've mentioned, I absolutely, positively do not want > conformance testing, of any kind! [..] > What I am fundamentally looking for here is a procedure by which > there is a control mechanism for defining a vendor trying to > be interoperable (which is a huge consumer, customer, and vendor > benefit) vs. a vendor that is using taking standards and abusing > them in the marketplace.
Interoperable with what? Interoperability testing occurs between implementations, and doesn't require reference to a document or specification. Conformance testing is, essentially, interoperability testing against an implementation that has previously been declared standards-compliant - the reference implementation. Your process for yanking a logo requires a vendor's implementation to fail an interoperability test against a known standards compliant implementation. Anything less would make the logo meaningless. That smells dangeoursly like conformance testing. And that's why you're getting such push-back. cheers, gja