Re: New Version Notification for draft-leiba-rfc2119-update-00.txt

[Ted Hardie <[e-mail]>]

Hi Barry,

Do screen readers and other assistive technologies differentiate between
lower case and upper case appropriately and consistently?  When I try a
basic screen reader (the one that came with my Ubuntu distro), it doesn't
seem to make a distinction, but this may be misconfiguration on my part (I
don't use it in general).

regards,

Ted



On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 1:08 PM, Barry Leiba <[e-mail]> wrote:

> This draft should be self-explanatory -- and please be sure to look at
> Section 1.1 for some explanations that may short-cut some of the
> discussion.
>
> The bottom line is to update BCP 14 (RFC 2119) to
> (1) make it clear that the key words MUST(/NOT), SHOULD(/NOT), and MAY
> are only key words when they're in ALL CAPS, and
> (2) deprecate the use of the variants (SHALL, RECOMMENDED, OPTIONAL)
> so as to avoid reserving an unnecessarily number of key words.
>
> Discussion here, please, before Ben, who has kindly agreed to
> AD-sponsor this, sends it out for last call.  And we do expect there
> to be some significant discussion on this one.
>
> Barry
>
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 2:55 PM,  <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >
> > A new version of I-D, draft-leiba-rfc2119-update-00.txt
> > has been successfully submitted by Barry Leiba and posted to the
> > IETF repository.
> >
> > Name:           draft-leiba-rfc2119-update
> > Revision:       00
> > Title:          Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words
> > Document date:  2016-08-09
> > Group:          Individual Submission
> > Pages:          4
> > URL:            https://www.ietf.org/internet-
> drafts/draft-leiba-rfc2119-update-00.txt
> > Status:         https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-leiba-rfc2119-
> update/
> > Htmlized:       https://tools.ietf.org/html/
> draft-leiba-rfc2119-update-00
> >
> >
> > Abstract:
> >    RFC 2119 specifies common key words that may be used in protocol
> >    specifications.  This document aims to reduce the ambiguity by
> >    clarifying that only UPPERCASE usage of the key words have the
> >    defined special meanings, and by deprecating some versions of the key
> >    words.
> >
>
>