Newly revised Section 10 for ES3.1.
OpenStrat at aol.com
OpenStrat at aol.com
Thu Jul 10 06:29:53 PDT 2008
In a message dated 7/10/2008 3:03:12 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
mjs at apple.com writes:
I do not believe that ECMA has the "two interoperable implementations"
rule that the IETF and W3C have, but since ECMAScript is a standard of
equal important to the Web, I think we should adopt this rule for any
future edition of ECMAScript. Such a rule is needed precisely to avoid
such casual breakage relative to Web reality. Can we make that a
binding TC39 resolution?
While it is true that no such rule exists in Ecma, it has been used in work
I am familiar with (optical storage) within TC 31. Early work on MO storage
resulted in TC 31 agreeing that at least two implementations must demonstrate
interoperability before approval of the standard. This meant that both disk
manufacturers and drive manufacturers had to work together to demonstrate
that the product resulting from the standard would work together. The
committee always followed this rule without question, and the CC and GA of Ecma did
not interfere with its implementation.
We can add this subject to discussion at Oslo, but this is a question that I
would put to an internal vote of TC 31 since it has wider impact than may be
represented in Oslo.
Regards,
John
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