[Bug 24047] Define or link to a definition of the word "non-normative" and possibly the word "normative"

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24047

--- Comment #7 from Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Karl Dubost from comment #5)
> > Normative: Text in a specification which is prescriptive or contains conformance requirements.
> — http://www.w3.org/QA/glossary#N
> 
> > Informative: Text in a specification whose purpose is informational or assistive in the understanding or use of the specification, and which contains no conformance requirements or test assertions. 
> — http://www.w3.org/QA/glossary#I 
> 
> See also http://www.w3.org/TR/qaframe-spec/#glossary

Thank you Karl!

(In reply to Leif Halvard Silli from comment #6)
> Non-Normative is actually not defined
> anywhere.

Except outside of the W3C where people get the wrong idea about what the term
means in the spec.

>  But Normative and Informative are. Informative is also a positive
> word - it doesn’t instill in the reader the thought that this is not useful
> to read. 

Agreed. 

> It is probably better to use Informative than to define
> “Non-Normative”.

That would be great. Then the spec could point to W3C definitions.

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