Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | conformance, compliance and compatibility | | From | Esben Stien <> | | Date | 30 Jan 2004 23:49:01 +0100 |
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I remember to have read that ISO has standardized on using conformance for everything that is conforming to a specific standard but I can't find it again. Anyone know where I could look?
AFAIK, this is my understanding of these words
Conformance has a deep root different meaning than compliance, but today that difference is not clear. However, ISO has standardized on using the word conformance and not compliance when saying something conforms to a standard.
Compatibility is for hardware. You can say that a specific piece of hardware is compatible with another piece of hardware cause it speaks the same protocol. Compatibility is a way of saying that two components uses the same interfaces.
You can not call a system unix today, cause unix today is a standard. The last unix was sysv. You can however say a system is conforming to unix (iso posix unix)(ieee 1003.1), so it is a unix conformant system. (to be technically correct).
Is there any document that clarifies these words better. I'm looking for some official documentation from a standards body like ISO, IEC etc.
I also see the words comformance and compliance used interchangably in RFC's, but to my knowledge I think I remember that RFC's where also supposed to be using conformance
-- b0ef
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