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UGPUniversal Grading Protocol
IntroductionNormativePreface

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How to read the specification: shall, should and may, and which sections are informative.

How to read this document

shall is a requirement. should is a recommendation. may is a permission. Sections marked (informative) explain or give examples and are not requirements. Everything else is normative.

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(Informative.) The three keywords are set in lowercase bold wherever they carry the meaning above, on every page and in the PDF. Each page of the specification carries a Normative or Informative tag; within a normative page, a heading or note marked (informative) is informative.

Section numbers are those of the PDF. Links to a section are pinned to the version they were written for, so a link to /v1.0/spec/core-code#grammar keeps pointing at the v1.0 text after later versions are published.

The Documentation and Adopt tabs explain the standard in plain words. They are informative: where they and the specification differ, the specification governs.