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- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
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- From: hcb@world.std.com (Howard C Berkowitz)
- Subject: Re: Formal Specifications of ISO Protocols
- Message-ID: <C0C1FG.AL9@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1992Dec28.064433.14965@cucs5.cs.cuhk.hk> <1993Jan4.100516@cs.utwente.nl>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 13:57:16 GMT
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- Remember that the formal language specifications of such protocolos as
- Transport are advisory. The formal specification remains the natural
- language document, with all its ambiguities.
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- A compromise position may be to look at the abstract test suites,
- written in TTCN, as a "more formal" specification which actually
- will be used. I recognize TTCN is an informal language and a cumbersome
- one, but it does have somewhat more formalism than an English-language
- specificatin.
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