[sc34wg3] SAM issue: sam-conformance

[Sam Hunting]

On 23 Apr 2003, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:

<slash type="of-interestign-and-valuable-commentary">
> Note, I say SAM throughout to keep the discussion simple. I know
> there's some dissent about whether there should be separate SAM and RM
> specifications, but let's ignore that while discussing this. The
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> conformance issue would play out in exactly the same way whether we
> were talking about RM, SAM, or RM+SAM.

For clarity: when the word "specification" is used, does that mean that
there is an implicit proposal to publish either the SAM, the RM, or the
SAM+RM as a Technical Specification? (One of the issues with N0396 is that
it uses "standard" and "specification" interchangeably.)


Sam Hunting
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