ISSUE-70: Usage of "normative" needs clarification
Ch7-Eliminate-"Normative"
Usage of "normative" needs clarification
- State:
- CLOSED
- Product:
- Document life cycle (pre 2014 chapter 7, now chapter 6)
- Raised by:
- Arthur Barstow
- Opened on:
- 2013-11-27
- Description:
- 1. To facilitate the reach and accessibility of this document (especially for non-English speakers) I think the term `normative` - when not used as a qualifier for "reference" i.e. "normative reference" - should be eliminated (or if it really can't be eliminated then define it).
Examples:
s/A W3C Recommendation is a specification or set of normative guidelines/A W3C Recommendation is a specification or set of informative guidelines/
s/some document that is not intended to be a normative specification/some document that is not intended to be a specification/
s/or non-normative 'Good Practices" documents/or informative 'Good Practices" documents/
s/non-normative good practices/informative good practices/
s/for making normative changes to a Recommendation/for making substantive changes to a Recommendation/
s/A correction becomes normative by the process described below./A correction becomes normative by the process described below./
(Perhaps it would be helpful to define "specification" (at least by example)?)
2. Define "normative reference" and point to the new policy.
- Related Actions Items:
- No related actions
- Related emails:
- [minutes] and summary of 27 January 2014 Revising W3C Process Community Group Teleconference (from coralie@w3.org on 2014-01-27)
- New draft of process proposal (from chaals@yandex-team.ru on 2013-12-06)
- [minutes] 2013-12-02 Revising W3C Process Community Group Teleconference (from coralie@w3.org on 2013-12-05)
- Re: Agenda for Chapter 7 Process Doc TF for Monday, 2 December (from fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net on 2013-12-02)
- Agenda for Chapter 7 Process Doc TF for Monday, 2 December (from steve@zilles.org on 2013-12-01)
- Re: w3process-ISSUE-70 (Ch7-Eliminate-"Normative"): Usage of "normative" needs clarification [Document life cycle (ch 7)] (from chaals@yandex-team.ru on 2013-11-28)
- w3process-ISSUE-70 (Ch7-Eliminate-"Normative"): Usage of "normative" needs clarification [Document life cycle (ch 7)] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2013-11-27)
Related notes:
[koalie]: see SteveZ's action-24
2 Dec 2013, 17:02:25Did this.
Charles 'chaals' (McCathie) Nevile, 12 Dec 2013, 17:56:10Suggestions implemented in 22 Jan 2014 editor's draft.
Steve Zilles, 27 Jan 2014, 16:13:00[koalie]: chaals: I implemented this quite a while ago
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