Re: [bfcpbis] Spencer Dawkins' Discuss on draft-ietf-bfcpbis-rfc4582bis-15: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

Alissa Cooper <alissa@cooperw.in> Thu, 05 November 2015 23:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: [bfcpbis] Spencer Dawkins' Discuss on draft-ietf-bfcpbis-rfc4582bis-15: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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> On Nov 6, 2015, at 7:46 AM, Paul Kyzivat <pkyzivat@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> - You SHOULD do foobar. The only acceptable situation to not do foobar
>  is blah blah blah.
> - It is RECOMMENDED that you do foobar. The only acceptable situation
>  to not do foobar is blah blah blah.

Either of the above would be fine. SHOULD and RECOMMENDED are equivalent according to RFC 2119.

Alissa

> 
> I have had implementers tell me that when they get an assignment to implement a spec, their management tells them to only do the MUSTs, because that is all that is required to satisfy the checkoff!
> 
> 	Thanks,
> 	Paul
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