18 Conformance - "normative portions of this specification"

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

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Greetings!

The first paragraph of chapter 18, Conformance reads:

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A TOSCA Definitions document conforms to this specification if it
conforms to the TOSCA schema and follows the syntax and semantics
defined in the normative portions of this specification.
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As far as I can tell, the specification does not distinguish between
normative and non-normative portions of the specification.

For example, compare 4.2 Properties and 4.3 Example. Or compare 5.2
Properties and 5.3 Example. Or compare any of those sections to 3.5
Composition of Service Templates.

I don't see any indicators of which of those sections should or should
not be considered as normative.

BTW, declaring particular sections normative would be a substantive
change.

Hope everyone is having a great week!

Patrick

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Patrick Durusau
patrick@durusau.net
Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB)
Former Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34
Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps)
Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300
Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)

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