Re: [I18ndir] Secdir last call review of draft-klensin-idna-rfc5891bis-05

Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca> Wed, 04 September 2019 16:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: [I18ndir] Secdir last call review of draft-klensin-idna-rfc5891bis-05
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On Wed, 4 Sep 2019, Barry Leiba wrote:

[ trimmed CC: as this is no longer about the specific document ]

> the text" angle, between "RFC 5891" and "[RFC5891]".  This is,
> therefore, an issue of tooling.  If we should change the HTML
> rendering so that "RFC 5891" or "RFC5891" were as readily clickable as
> "[RFC5891]", this would simply not be a problem, right?  Assuming
> that, I think I will have a conversation with the tools team: we
> should just do it.

Yes, that's right. And it would be nice to update the tooling.

> Yes, lots of discussion, yes, we'll leave it as it is for this case.  But...
>
> In the general case, I actually rail *against* "SHOULD X, but MAY Y",
> because I think they're contradictory: doing Y is not an entirely
> optional choice (and MAY is too flaky anyway, and doesn't work here).
> My strong preference is for using the following:
> - MUST do X unless <condition>, in which case MUST do Y.
> - MUST do X unless <condition>, in which case SHOULD do Y.
> - MUST do X unless <condition>, in which case implementations generally do Y.
> - SHOULD do X.  <explanation>

I fully agree. In this case I was just trying to stick as much as
possible to the original text. But in the general case, I agree with
what you write here, and that MAY should only be used on its own, and
not as a branch of a SHOULD.

Paul