From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 06/15/2001 06:29:51 PM "Michael \(michka\) Kaplan" wrote: > >Why be more specific then there are a lot of people who think they might > >possibly have made TOO MUCH normative and do not want to make things > >unchangeable that might be in error or might need to change later? > > But normative explicitly does *not* mean unchangeable. It quite specifically means that others can use it and reference it. Anyone knows you cannot build a house on a shifting foundation, which is why making something "normative" should be something reserved for things that one is *not* going to change. michka
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