The future of "Transitional": Japanese concern

[Jesper Lund Stocholm]

Hi all,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jirka Kosek [mailto:jirka at kosek.cz]
> Sent: 18. november 2009 09:57
> To: MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given)
> Cc: SC 34 WG4
> Subject: Re: The future of "Transitional": Japanese concern
> 
> MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given) wrote:
> 
> > Since old MS Office appears to be unable to handle the conformance
> > class "strict", we would like to introduce extend both the
> conformance
> > classes "strict" and "transitional".
> >
> > For this reason, we are are against withdrawal and stabilization of
> > the conformance class "transitional" in a hurry, and feel uneasy
> about
> > prohibiting extensions of "transitional".
> 
> Putting aside question how or whether "transitional" should be
extended
> -- wouldn't it be possible to use MCE for your requirements?

+1

> Adding new feature to "transitional" will be precedent and it would be
> then hard to resist to additional feature requests. I'm not saying
> whether this is good or bad, but it will increase maintenance work as
> "transitional" and "strict" are going to be quite separate specs after
> amendment goes through balloting.

+1

The words I am thinking about are "slippery slope".

Jesper Lund Stocholm
ciber Danmark A/S