On Jan 22, 2007, at 8:15 AM, Art Douglas wrote:
> Please understand that Drummond Certification _DOES NOT_ signify or
> even guarantee compliance with W3C standards for AS2.
Art you beat me to answering to Shan along the same line. It is
important to understand that the Certification is about
INTEROPERABILITY among the tested products NOT their COMPLIANCE to
the IETF (not W3C) standards!
There are two main reasons for this. The first being that the
standards themselves don't define what compliance is and how to test
for it. In the past communications standards such as X.400 did just
that, however, the problems that arose were that products that passed
the standards compliance testing were not interoperable with each
other. The other reason being that the standards themselves are open
for interpretations because of the lack of proving the needed details
for every aspect of the implementation thanks to the linkage and
reliance to other IETF standards that are required.
To overcome those issues the Drummond Group created, after the
release of the EDIINT (AS1), a standard test environment were the
product developers, that signed up, self tested their product to work
with each other. Speaking from experience during the early rounds of
EDIINT testing this sometimes requires to agree how to "interpret"
certain aspects of the standards involved. As more parties joined the
testing, those "interpretations" are open to be revised and changed.
Shan's assumption and conclusion that "if A=B and B=C, then A must =
C. What this means is that a 2005 certified B2B product will work
with the newbie company that is now testing their product" may not be
true at all.
Klaus
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