Issue 6045: page 131: Inconsistency (deployment-ftf)
Source: THALES (Mr. Olivier Hachet, olivier.hachet(at)thalesgroup.com)
Nature: Uncategorized Issue
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Summary:  page 131: Inconsistency: A sentence in the §3.4 page 7 is "The included
IDL is normative due to the lack of tools to perform the mapping
automatically." and at page 131 an other one says, "This chapter contains
IDL that has been produced from the PIM using these rules. It is
non-normative, ...".


Resolution: 
Revised Text: 
Actions taken:
August 1, 2003: received issue
Discussion: 

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From: olivier.hachet2@fr.thalesgroup.com 
To: deployment-ftf@omg.org 
Subject: Some issues 
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:44:44 +0200 
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Hi,


I have found some issues listed below concerning the document
ptc/2003-07-08. For some of them, I am not sure but I prefer submit them
even if it's a lack of understanding :


ge 131: Inconsistency: A sentence in the §3.4 page 7 is "The included
IDL is normative due to the lack of tools to perform the mapping
automatically." and at page 131 an other one says, "This chapter contains
IDL that has been produced from the PIM using these rules. It is
non-normative, ...".

Subject: Proposed resolution for issue 6045 
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 14:20:33 -0500 
Thread-Topic: Proposed resolution for issue 6045 
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From: "Pilhofer, Frank" <fpilhofe@mc.com> 
To: <deployment-ftf@omg.org> 
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Background: according to section 3.4 on page 7,


    Note that IDL definitions for the CCM PSM are generated based on the
    rules in the PSMs and are included in the appendix. The included IDL
    is normative due to the lack of tools to perform the mapping
    automatically.


This conflicts with Appendix A, which explains,


    [...] With these rules, chapter 9 contains the normative definition.
    This chapter contains IDL that has been produced from the PIM using
    these rules. It is non-normative, so in the case of discrepancies,
    chapter 9 is relevant.


Similar text occurs in Appendix B.


Since we now have tools to perform the mapping, the statement in 3.4
does not hold true any longer.


Proposed resolution:


Change section 3.4 to read:


    Note that IDL definitions for the CCM PSM are generated based on
    the normative rules described in chapter 9. The resulting IDL is