applicability statement
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... context in which the TS is incorporated by different
system configurations, are defined by an Applicability Statement.
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... Applicability Statement (AS) ...
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An Applicability Statement specifies how, and under what
circumstances, one or more TSs may be applied to support a particular
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... text of the new version or in another appropriate document (e.g., an
Applicability Statement; see section 3.2).
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... "implementors' agreements" that are analogous to Applicability
Statements, capturing a body of implementation-specific detail
concerned with the practical application of their standards. All
of these are considered to be "open external standards" for the
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... Applicability Statement ...