Certainly. I hadn't realized that you were not on the original list. What I
received was the following. (I don't have the chapter and verse to go with
it).
3.4
normative elements
those elements setting out the provisions to which it is necessary to
conform in order to be able to claim compliance with the standard
3.5 informative elements
3.5.1
preliminary elements
those elements that identify the standard, introduce its content and
explain
its background, its development and its relationship with other standards
3.5.2
supplementary elements
those elements that provide additional information intended to assist the
understanding or use of the standard
3.6
required element
element the presence of which in a standard is obligatory
3.7
optional element
element the presence of which in a standard is dependent on the provisions
of the particular standard
3.8
provision
expression in the content of a normative document, that takes the form of a
statement, an instruction, a recommendation or a requirement
NOTE These types of provision are distinguished by the form of wording
they employ; e.g. instructions are expressed in the imperative mood,
recommendations by the use of the auxiliary "should" and requirements by
the
use of the auxiliary "shall".
[ISO/IEC Guide 2:1996, definition 7.1]
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Everson" <everson@egt.ie>
To: "Multiple Recipients of Unicore" <unicore@unicode.org>
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 04:03
Subject: Re: Normative vs Informative
Ar 01:57 -0800 2000-11-06, scríobh Mark Davis:
>I was looking for a different message from Michael, and ran across this
one.
>This issue was not followed up on this list, so I thought I would report
the
>status so that people are not confused. As we found out later, Michael and
>Ken's first take on this issue did not actually match the ISO directives:
>the ISO definition of "normative" does not deal with process and level of
>control, it is specifically conformance.
Where was this discussed? Arnold sent out a copy of the Directives, but I
didn't see any discussion of it. Cite the clause(s), please.
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