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Re: suggested revision for MUST/SHOULD

Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> Sat, 29 July 2000 00:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: suggested revision for MUST/SHOULD
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In-Reply-To: DRUMS WG Chair's message of "Fri, 28 Jul 2000 16:35:33 -0700"
From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 17:14:59 -0700
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DRUMS WG Chair <chris.newman@innosoft.com> writes:

> The document editor has privately told me he is agreeable to the
> proposal to copy the definitions from RFC 2119 under the condition that
> there is a review of all MUST/SHOULD usage in the draft relative to the
> changed meanings.  Paul Hoffman has volunteered to perform that review.
> If no one objects, I will ask Paul to perform that review and post
> proposed text changes (if any are needed) to the list for consideration.

I was hesitating on agreeing with that proposal due to the amount of work
it would take to do that review.  Thank you, Paul!  I think it will be
less confusing for this RFC to use the same definitions as most others
these days are, even if the degree of the differences is arguable.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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