What's with TR -> TS?
Can someone explain the change and the reason for it to me? Why change from calling them Technical Releases to calling them Technical Specifications? (At least that's what I was told it meant)
Those are just different ISO documents: (emphasis mine)
TR: "An informative document containing information of a different kind from that normally published in a normative document." http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards_development/deliverables-all.htm?type=tr
TS: "A normative document representing the technical consensus within an ISO committee" http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards_development/deliverables-all.htm?type=ts
In C++, ISO/IEC TR 19768:2007 (better known as "TR1") was not normative: it was just a set of boost libraries and C99 components put together in a form that compiler vendors could test drive for the future C++11 standard inclusion. ISO/IEC TR 18015:2006 (the Performance TR) was just a prose document debunking a few common myths.
ISO/IEC 29124:2010 and ISO/IEC TR 24733:2011 are other non-normative C++ TRs (special math functions and std::decimal) which are essentially test-drives of future library components.
TS, on the other hand, is essentially a preview of a standard, ISO requires that every TS either becomes a part of an international standard or is withdrawn in 6 years.
TR: "An informative document containing information of a different kind from that normally published in a normative document." http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards_development/deliverables-all.htm?type=tr
TS: "A normative document representing the technical consensus within an ISO committee" http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards_development/deliverables-all.htm?type=ts
In C++, ISO/IEC TR 19768:2007 (better known as "TR1") was not normative: it was just a set of boost libraries and C99 components put together in a form that compiler vendors could test drive for the future C++11 standard inclusion. ISO/IEC TR 18015:2006 (the Performance TR) was just a prose document debunking a few common myths.
ISO/IEC 29124:2010 and ISO/IEC TR 24733:2011 are other non-normative C++ TRs (special math functions and std::decimal) which are essentially test-drives of future library components.
TS, on the other hand, is essentially a preview of a standard, ISO requires that every TS either becomes a part of an international standard or is withdrawn in 6 years.
Thanks!
Now I've got to track down that one stack overflow question that to-the-side said TS was the replacement name for TR...
Now I've got to track down that one stack overflow question that to-the-side said TS was the replacement name for TR...
It looks like Pete is convinced they are transitioning from TR to TS - I'll wait for the discussion to play out though.
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