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@@ -15,13 +15,12 @@ The C2PA Technical Working Group will approve and merge PRs in accordance with i
 
 C2PA's Technical Working Group may also decide to remove malicious or non-conformant entries from the list of approved soft binding algorithms.
 
-For an entry to be approved the following criteria are important:
-- The entry has to comply with the [schema](softbinding-algorithm-list-schema.json) and include all the mendatory fields.
 For a PR (new entry or update) to be approved the following criteria are important:
-- The entry has to conform with the [schema](softbinding-algorithm-list-schema.json) and include all the mandatory fields.
-- The entry should not be malicious (e.g., spam) or harmful.
-- The PR has to be submitted by an individual affiliated with the company owning the submitted proprietary algorithm or a maintainer of the submitted open source algorithm or its fork.
-- The provided URLs have to successfully resolve (e.g., `softBindingResolutionApis`, `informationalUrl`)
+- The entry shall conform with the [schema](softbinding-algorithm-list-schema.json) and shall include all the mandatory fields.
+- The entry shall not appear to be malicious (e.g., spam) or harmful.
+- The PR shall be submitted by an individual affiliated with the company owning the submitted proprietary algorithm or a maintainer of the submitted open source algorithm or its fork.
+- The provided URLs shall successfully resolve (e.g., `softBindingResolutionApis`, `informationalUrl`).
+- The algorithm covered by the entry shall support embedding, extracting, or both, of a soft binding identifier for the purpose of manifest recovery.