ODF 1.2cd01 -- Improper usage of OPTIONAL to express options

Committee Draft 1 contains 28 occurrences of the term OPTIONAL, used
to express permission. These are surviving remnants of OASIS ODF 1.0,
which relied on RFC 2119 requirements keyword definitions.

Under ISO/IEC Directives Part 2: Rules for the Structure and Drafting
of International Standards (5th Edition, 21 December 2004),
<http://www.iec.ch/tiss/iec/Directives-Part2-Ed5.pdf> Annex H, Table
H.3, MAY and NEED NOT are used to express permission rather than
OPTIONAL.

Recommendation: Edit the draft specification to remove all occurrences
of OPTIONAL and replace them with appropriate terms defined by ISO/IEC
Directives Part 2 Annex H.

Best regards,

Paul E. Merrell, J.D. (Marbux)

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