[Bug 10626] non-normative? this sounds confusing and vauge...

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10626


Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |ian@hixie.ch
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX




--- Comment #2 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>  2010-09-24 14:48:58 ---
It's not just that it has no conformance requirements... it has no effect
whatsoever. "Normative" is the word used throughout specdom to refer to this,
and is the word used in section "2.2 Conformance requirements" to invoke
everything, so I don't really see what's wrong with "non-normative". It's not
like we're using the word incorrectly. This is what it means. If people don't
know what it means, they should read a dictionary or something. :-)

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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: It's not our job to teach people English.

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