SYSML17 — Hanging Clauses Throughout SysML 1.4

ISO/IEC Directives Part 2 2016 clause 22 states than each and every clause and subclause of the spec should be numbered, and hanging clauses should be avoided. Any numbered clause containing text or figures than that has a subordinate numbered clause becomes a hanging clause, because it does not have a unique number assigned to it.

List of known hanging clauses in SysML 1.4 (exclusive of un-numbered ‘subpart’ text on pages 1, 19, 103, 145, and 185):
6.2 page 17
7.1 page 21
7.3.2 page 26 (figure only)
8.3.1.1 page 42
8.3.1.2 page 44
8.3.2 page 47 (figures only)
8.3.3.1 page 59 (figure only)
8.3.3.2 page 60 (figure only)
9.1 page 71
9.3.2 page 79 (figures only)
10.3.2 page 100 (figure only)
11.1 page 105
11.3.1 page 114
11.3.2 page 117 (both text and figure)
11.3.3.1 page 121 (both text and figure)
12.3.1 page 133
15.3.2 page 150 (figure only)
15.4 page 152 (both text and figure)
15.4.2 page 153 (both text and figure)
16.3.2 page 164 (figure only)
16.4 page 168
17.2.1 page 176 (figure only)
17.2.2 page 178 (figure only)
B.2 page 194 (figure only)
C.1 page 203
E.5.2 page 254 (both figures and text)
E.6.5 page 286 (both figure and text)
Annex F (no paragraph number)
G.4 page 318

Proposal: Hanging Clauses Throughout SysML 1.4

The issue affects SysML 1.4 and was fixed in the meantime (see SysML 1.6.).