[Geopriv] [Errata Held for Document Update] RFC3693 (4621)

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The following errata report has been held for document update 
for RFC3693, "Geopriv Requirements". 

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You may review the report below and at:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=3693&eid=4621

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Status: Held for Document Update
Type: Editorial

Reported by: Jay R. Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Date Reported: 2016-02-17
Held by: Alissa Cooper (IESG)

Section: 8.1

Original Text
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This means that Geopriv may not as a general matter, 
secure the Target against general traffic analysis attacks 
or other forms of privacy violations.

Corrected Text
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This means that Geopriv might not, as a general matter, 
secure the Target against general traffic analysis attacks 
or other forms of privacy violations.

Notes
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Aside from the missing comma on the parenthetical, the use of MAY NOT, even uncapitalized, appears to collide with RFC 2119: It's pretty clear the authors intended to say that there may exist conditions in which Geopriv won't secure targets, but the chosen wording, interpreted in context of 2119, means that Geopriv *will not* or *must not* secure Targets, and that interpretation is sort of bogus.

In short: May here is directive, rather than predictive/descriptive, which seems what was intended.

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RFC3693 (draft-ietf-geopriv-reqs-04)
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Title               : Geopriv Requirements
Publication Date    : February 2004
Author(s)           : J. Cuellar, J. Morris, D. Mulligan, J. Peterson, J. Polk
Category            : INFORMATIONAL
Source              : Geographic Location/Privacy
Area                : Real-time Applications and Infrastructure
Stream              : IETF
Verifying Party     : IESG