ISO Rice: Using references both with and without a year indication

[anermina]

The original document lists the following normative references:

In all places except from the following, they are cross-referenced as listed in the Normative references.

These exceptions are by Metanorma's default encoded as in Normative references. Is there a specific reason why these should be manually encoded differently?

[ronaldtse]

@anermina you mean in these two cross-references, the document identifiers appear in a different form (with year or without year) than when cited.

There is actually a reason for that:

1. In Terms and definitions, the SOURCE should be a dated reference in order to provide a clause number.
2. In the content, if a standard is referenced as a requirement, it can be undated. For example, the requirement perhaps could be satisfied using any edition of that standard.

Encoding:

• I think for the first, technically citing “undated” already includes all dated references, and because ISO does not like citing undated + dated, so using an undated in Norm refs then citing dated in SOURCE is acceptable. This is a feature change.
• for the second, I think the Norm refs should have cited the undated reference instead.