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Subject: Proposal: Bolding NOT required for "shall"/"shall not"
Section 1.2 says that "shall", "shall not", etc. are only interpreted per ISO/IEC if they appear in bold letters. That's just ASKING for trouble: * If someone cuts and pastes and loses the bolding, they should still be able to correctly interpret the text. * If we make a mistake and omit a bolding, did we REALLY mean for it "not to count"? Unlikely. In fact, the first "shall" after that is NOT in bold (oops). * It may impair accessibility of the document; blind users may not notice the bolding. I have no trouble bolding the text, but that should be a visual aid, and NOT required. We should also note "need not" (it's the reverse of "may"). --- David A. Wheeler
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