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Re: Negotiated noncompliance

Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no> Tue, 29 August 2000 07:16 UTC

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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 09:08:46 +0200
To: Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk>, drums@cs.utk.edu
From: Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>
Subject: Re: Negotiated noncompliance
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At 22:17 23/08/2000 +0100, Charles Lindsey wrote:
>Any solution to this problem needs to involve a "MAY"
>    (a) because that makes its status absolutely clear
>    (b) because "MAY" has a slightly discouraging feel to it - sort of
>    "well some implementations may do it that way for whatever reason,
>    but noway is it to be regarded as the normal thing, and 'proper'
>    implementations probably won't".

Someone once reminded me that in the standards sense, MAY and MAY NOT are 
actually synonyms....

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