ISSUE-70: Usage of "normative" needs clarification

Ch7-Eliminate-"Normative"

Usage of "normative" needs clarification

State:

CLOSED

Product:

Document life cycle (pre 2014 chapter 7, now chapter 6)

Raised by:

Arthur Barstow

Opened on:

2013-11-27

Description:

1. To facilitate the reach and accessibility of this document (especially for non-English speakers) I think the term `normative` - when not used as a qualifier for "reference" i.e. "normative reference" - should be eliminated (or if it really can't be eliminated then define it).

Examples:

s/A W3C Recommendation is a specification or set of normative guidelines/A W3C Recommendation is a specification or set of informative guidelines/

s/some document that is not intended to be a normative specification/some document that is not intended to be a specification/

s/or non-normative 'Good Practices" documents/or informative 'Good Practices" documents/

s/non-normative good practices/informative good practices/

s/for making normative changes to a Recommendation/for making substantive changes to a Recommendation/

s/A correction becomes normative by the process described below./A correction becomes normative by the process described below./

(Perhaps it would be helpful to define "specification" (at least by example)?)

2. Define "normative reference" and point to the new policy.

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Related emails:

1. [minutes] and summary of 27 January 2014 Revising W3C Process Community Group Teleconference (from coralie@w3.org on 2014-01-27)
2. New draft of process proposal (from chaals@yandex-team.ru on 2013-12-06)
3. [minutes] 2013-12-02 Revising W3C Process Community Group Teleconference (from coralie@w3.org on 2013-12-05)
4. Re: Agenda for Chapter 7 Process Doc TF for Monday, 2 December (from fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net on 2013-12-02)
5. Agenda for Chapter 7 Process Doc TF for Monday, 2 December (from steve@zilles.org on 2013-12-01)
6. Re: w3process-ISSUE-70 (Ch7-Eliminate-"Normative"): Usage of "normative" needs clarification [Document life cycle (ch 7)] (from chaals@yandex-team.ru on 2013-11-28)
7. w3process-ISSUE-70 (Ch7-Eliminate-"Normative"): Usage of "normative" needs clarification [Document life cycle (ch 7)] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2013-11-27)

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