Requiring Profiles to include the applicable TCKs

[paulbuck]

I am starting to think that Profiles need to be required to include the TCKs of their ingredient specifications. If the Profile's TCK is not at least as strong as the individual specification's TCK there may be a compatibility "gap". If that gap exists, code written to the API for an individual specification surfaced in a Profile may not run on a standalone compatible implementation of the the individual specification.

[starksm64]

My minimum operating assumption is that a profile specifies that all individual TCKs need to be run, and therefore it is at least as strong as the individual TCKs. This would allow that an individual TCK may have levels/profiles that group tests together such that some tests may not apply to a given profile.