- From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 12:04:31 +0000
- To: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Cc: "Michael Schneider" <schneid@fzi.de>, "Bijan Parsia" <bparsia@cs.manchester.ac.uk>, "Ian Horrocks" <ian.horrocks@comlab.ox.ac.uk>, "W3C OWL Working Group" <public-owl-wg@w3.org>, "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
To be clear, I don't want to force the issue. For some of our other documents, there are clear non-normative references. I.e., references that could be dropped without affecting the reading of the spec text itself or the design of the language. It helps to mark those clearly, in my experience. If you do not feel that there are any such references in your document, then omitting the label is fine, IMHO. You think people cannot discard any of the references and that's the default for me when reading a spec (i.e., I presume its design or spec text significant unless marked non-normative or informative). If you, upon reflection, think that some of your references are so discardable, or want to include a reference to something for illustration or further reading purposes (which I don't think is a bad idea), then you should have an informative references section. Cheers, Bijan.
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