For all of the implementation questions, there is no single set of answers. Universal interoperability may not be practical. The question was raised of how one defines compliance with two implementations. Tyde Richards and Neal Nored will investigate an IMS implementation and report on this at the next meeting. A question was raised about harmonizing with other LTSC activities.
Harmonization is a good long-term goal for subsequent releases of the standard.
At present the other working groups are moving targets and the initial standard needs to codify existing practice. Jack discussed the current state of the documents. In June 1998 the AICC specification was accepted as a base document. In July 1998 the document was converted into IEEE format with assertions for conformance testing. In September 1998 the layered approach was published.