definition of INDISTINCT

persuant to
  ACTION: ericP to draft text about a LOOSE keyword and run it by w3
  folks to see if we're abusing the "at risk" mechanism.
I drafted this section. It was slightly more awkward to not have an
ALL to lean on, but I think this is pretty well defined:

9.4 INDISTINCT

While the DISTINCT modifier ensures that duplicate solutions are
eliminated from the solution set, INDISTINCT simply permits them to be
eliminated. The cardinality of any set of variable bindings (solution)
in an INDISTINCT solution set at least one and not more than the
cardinality of the solution set with no DISTINCT or INDISTINCT
modifier. For example, the query

  PREFIX foaf:    <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>
  SELECT INDISTINCT ?name WHERE { ?x foaf:name ?name }

may have one, two (shown here) or three solutions:
  name
  "Alice"
  "Alice"
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