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Re: [hybi] Opera's Pre-Last Call review of websocket -06

"Simon Pieters" <simonp@opera.com> Tue, 26 April 2011 09:21 UTC

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On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 09:41:12 +0200, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>  
wrote:

> On 22.04.2011 03:45, Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ) wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com
>> <mailto:simonp@opera.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     We have reviewed
>>     http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-06
>>
>>     The introduction section is non-normative but has a number of MUSTs.
>>     Please don't have any requirements in the introduction.
>>
>>
>> I have ensured that normative requirements are now consistently upper
>> case. There are no upper case MUSTs left in the non-normative
>> introduction in the draf that will be 07.
>> ...
>
> But note that RFC 2119 says:
>
>     In many standards track documents several words are used to signify
>     the requirements in the specification.  These words are often
>     capitalized.  This document defines these words as they should be
>     interpreted in IETF documents.  Authors who follow these guidelines
>     should incorporate this phrase near the beginning of their document:
>
> ...so the magic lies in the keyword, not in the uppercasing.

Indeed. Words such as 'could' and 'will' can be used instead in  
non-normative contexts.

-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software

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