http://www.imsproject.org/conformance/index.html
I could be wrong, but this seems new, and welcome at that. IMS has announced this new Compliance Program which outlines methods for developers of content, services and applications to provide evidence to support conformance claims based on self testing, and in so doing rate the claim of “IMS Conformant.” While we have had the ability to verify SCORM conformance now for some time, this is the first, as far as I know, where claims concerning IMS specifications that aren’t included in SCORM (and there are many) will have some form of verification applied to them. Announcements to this effect should start to circulate later this year as the first products work their way through the process. – SWL