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@@ -135,11 +135,6 @@ <h2>Non-goals</h2>
     </section>
     
     <section id='conformance'>
-      <p>
-        As well as sections marked as non-normative, all authoring guidelines, diagrams, examples,
-        and notes in this specification are non-normative. Everything else in this specification is
-        normative.
-      </p>
       <p> 
         This specification defines one class of products: 
       </p>