Re: Test suites and RFC2119

2011-07-10 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Aryeh Gregor wrote: >The difference is that if you have "must" requirements that are >specific to a single conformance class, you can write a test suite and >expect every implementation in that class to pass it. For "should" >requirements, you're saying it's okay to violate it, so test suites >d

Re: Test suites and RFC2119

2011-07-10 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:34:59 +0200, Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: Privacy and security restrictions leap to mind. There are things that really are "should" requirements because there are valid use cases for not applying them, and no rea

Re: Test suites and RFC2119

2011-07-10 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > Privacy and security restrictions leap to mind. There are things that really > are "should" requirements because there are valid use cases for not applying > them, and no reason to break those cases by making the requirement a "must"

Re: Test suites and RFC2119

2011-07-10 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:32:42 +0200, Aryeh Gregor wrote: Generally, if something is important enough for interop that we want to test it, we don't want to make it a "should" requirement. It should be a "must". What examples do you have of "should" requirements that you want to test? Privac

Re: CfC: publish Last Call Working Draft of Web IDL; deadline July 7

2011-07-10 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:01:17 +0200, timeless wrote: On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Arthur Barstow wrote: Although there are ongoing discussions regarding exceptions, there were no objections to this CfC. As such, I will request publication of a LC specification to encourage broader review

Re: CfC: publish Last Call Working Draft of Web IDL; deadline July 7

2011-07-10 Thread timeless
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Arthur Barstow wrote: > Although there are ongoing discussions regarding exceptions, there were no > objections to this CfC. As such, I will request publication of a LC > specification to encourage broader review and comments. Sorry, I'm in the midst of sending com