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

"Ben Campbell" <ben@nostrum.com> Thu, 11 August 2016 15:14 UTC

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From: Ben Campbell <ben@nostrum.com>
To: Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org>
Subject: Re: New Version Notification for draft-leiba-rfc2119-update-00.txt
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 10:14:07 -0500
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On 10 Aug 2016, at 11:18, Barry Leiba wrote:

> It's ironic, I think, that the active voice clause, "Authors who 
> follow these
>> guidelines should incorporate this phrase" uses an uncapitalized 
>> "should,"
>> and I think it should be a "MUST."
>
>
> There's no irony here: this document intentionally does not use BCP 14
> key words, neither does 2119, and I think they should not.  I'd rather
> that BCP 14 not be self-referential.

While I don't have strong feelings whether this draft should use 2119 
keywords, I don't follow that line of reasoning. It's normal for RFCs to 
define terms, then use them. And for the record, 2119 does have at least 
one MUST (see section 6).

Ben (with no hats).

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