Should spec conformance statements be understandable as sentences out of context?

[wip-abramson]

As I was looking over the the test statements extracted into this hackmd document - https://hackmd.io/pxOH-leKR8KD8LOxdb7w5A - I realized a lot of the conformance statement sentences are not clear when taken out of context. They are also multiple statements that are the same.

For example

If present, the associated value MUST be an ASCII string.

This sentence appears 5 times in the spec.

Now, maybe this is fine because sentences like this shouldnt really be taken out of context.

But I did wonder if it would be clearer for us to update them.

E.g.

If the service parameter is present, the associated value MUST be an ASCII string.

[wip-abramson]

It also seems that the analysing tool I used to extract these statements - https://github.com/digitalbazaar/test-suite-coverage-metrics/blob/122a836631dceb8a665fbda0bfa9445adb9de31b/app/plugins/analysers.py#L82

Only extracts unique statements. E.g.

If present, the associated value MUST be an ASCII string.

Only appears once in the hackmd document.