Re: HP review for LC (spec_lean normative extract)

The spec is very close to being one of the clearest I've read in this 
regard. Short, intelligible, unambiguous, well-distinguished normative 
text. And this clarity without sacrificing informative material.

The comment is not meant as a criticism merely an encouragement to be 
best-in-class, an exemplar.

I guess the security section slightly detracts from that, being a more 
finger-in-the-air type of specification; not something which translates 
well into mechanical rules.

Jeremy


Dan Connolly wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 18:57 +0000, Jeremy Carroll wrote:
> [...]
>> 3) clarify normative text
>>
>> A silly pedantic point is that while the textual conventions for
>> normative text are very clear and clean, that are not followed
>> systematically.
> 
> Quite. :-/
> 
> I don't know if you saw the link from the TOC...
>   "Extract: normative material only @@in progress"
>   -> http://www.w3.org/2004/01/rdxh/spec_lean
> 
> I had in mind to carefully review that this normative extract
> made sense on its own.
> 
> Then I had in mind to drop it altogether, since I'm not all
> that invested in distinguishing between normative and informative
> stuff in the spec. The words in the spec are in the spec.
> 
> But this review comment gives me pause. Hmm.
> 
> 

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