On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:32:42 +0200, Aryeh Gregor <simetrical+...@gmail.com> 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?

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". In the normal case where they are applied you want to be able to test.

But the difference between "should" and "must" is already two sets of conformance profiles (or whatever you want to call it), where one applies always and the other applies unless there's a reason not to do the thing that is assumed to be normal.

cheers

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