Issue 5446: Conformance Points appear to be contradictory                                                                                                                                                           (online-upgrades-ftf)
Source: 2AB (Ms. Carol Burt, cburt@2ab.com)
Nature: Uncategorized Issue
Severity: 
Summary: Section 8.1 on Mandatory and Optional Interfaces, and Section 8.2 on
Conformance Points appear to be contradictory - you should define what you
mean by "the entire set of specifications" as a conformance point.   I'm
not sure what it means to say that you have to implement the entire
specification when some interfaces are "optional".  i would take this to
mean that a "conformant" implementation might be required to implement
optional interfaces and throw "NO_IMPLEMENT" on every operation on those
interfaces.  This should be clarified
Resolution: See below
Revised Text: In Section 8.2 Proposed Compliance Points, replace the sentence 
"The proposed compliance point is the entire set of specifications defined in this proposal." by the sentences 
"Two compliance points are defined.  The first compliance point implements the membership style MEMB_INF_CTRL, but does not implement the membership style MEMB_APP_CTRL.  The second compliance point implements both membership styles, MEMB_INF_CTRL and MEMB_APP_CTRL."

Actions taken:
June 27, 2002: received issue
March 10, 2004: closed issue
Discussion: 

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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 17:27:54 -0500 
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From: Carol Burt <cburt@2ab.com> 
Subject: Online Upgrades Issue 


Section 8.1 on Mandatory and Optional Interfaces, and Section 8.2 on
Conformance Points appear to be contradictory - you should define what
you
mean by "the entire set of specifications" as a conformance point.
I'm
not sure what it means to say that you have to implement the entire
specification when some interfaces are "optional".  i would take this
to
mean that a "conformant" implementation might be required to implement
optional interfaces and throw "NO_IMPLEMENT" on every operation on
those
interfaces.  This should be clarified.   
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Carol Burt                                             2AB, Inc.
cburt@2ab.com                                    www.2ab.com
205-621-7455 ext 103                            OMG Member
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