diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index f7eb34664..ede4d3019 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -3092,6 +3092,15 @@ <h3>Human-Readable Metadata</h3>
   carry forward changes in direction from one string to another, or infer direction
   for one string from another one elsewhere in the TD.
   </p>
+  <p class="note">Being aware that Strings on the Web [[?string-meta]] suggests 
+  to use Localizable dictionary structure as the best practice to support base 
+  direction metadata, given that Thing Description format is based on JSON-LD 1.1 
+  [[?json-ld11]], the approach described above is considered most appropriate 
+  at the time of this publication. When JSON-LD 1.1 adopts the design for supporting 
+  base direction metadata advised by [[?string-meta]] and implement as a feature 
+  in the future, Thing Description format should be updated to take advantage of 
+  that feature for cleanly supporting base direction metadata.
+  </p>
   <p>
   A TD snippet using <code>title</code> and <code>description</code> is 
   shown below. The default language is set to <code>en</code> through the
diff --git a/index.template.html b/index.template.html
index 67d729fa4..fcb5a7212 100644
--- a/index.template.html
+++ b/index.template.html
@@ -2462,6 +2462,15 @@ <h3>Human-Readable Metadata</h3>
   carry forward changes in direction from one string to another, or infer direction
   for one string from another one elsewhere in the TD.
   </p>
+  <p class="note">Being aware that Strings on the Web [[?string-meta]] suggests 
+  to use Localizable dictionary structure as the best practice to support base 
+  direction metadata, given that Thing Description format is based on JSON-LD 1.1 
+  [[?json-ld11]], the approach described above is considered most appropriate 
+  at the time of this publication. When JSON-LD 1.1 adopts the design for supporting 
+  base direction metadata advised by [[?string-meta]] and implement as a feature 
+  in the future, Thing Description format should be updated to take advantage of 
+  that feature for cleanly supporting base direction metadata.
+  </p>
   <p>
   A TD snippet using <code>title</code> and <code>description</code> is 
   shown below. The default language is set to <code>en</code> through the