[tei-council] conformance draft

[Sebastian Rahtz]

James Cummings wrote:
> Good.  Is anyone disagreeing that for Conformance there must have been, at
> some point, a TEI ODD?  (i.e. even if the user is using a tei_lite schema,
> that was originally an ODD).
>   
Well, yes, I am not that happy about it. Just call me Wendell.
Seems like painting ourselves into a corner, to throw
away the chance of customing it with RELAXNG fragments.
>
>  With other
> guidelines/standards, if you took one part of it and ignored how it was
> meant to be done and did it an entirely different way, you'd recognise that
> you might not have support, interoperability, or 'certification' or
> whatnot.  
note that you don't use the word "conformance" there.

I won't go to the stake on this, though.

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