Conformance specification-the standards policeman

An Electronic Industries Association CEBus working group has been formed to address the conformance requirements of a networking standard. CEBus standard conformance specification (SCS) is being written and will be issued following the release of the CEBus standard itself. Some of the attributes of the CEBus SCS are as follows: capability of multiple diverse products: various levels of product functionality: in general the standard itself is followed; detailed test procedures of many of the standard requirements, including limiting values on the input and output parameters; grouping of conformance requirements according to the ISO layers included within the CEBus standard; testing only those features that the manufacturer claims: and confirmation of minimum requirements such as network crash avoidance, collision avoidance, graceful backoffs, and priority level