Re: Uppercase question for RFC2119 words

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Mon, 28 March 2016 20:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: Uppercase question for RFC2119 words
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>>> - Normative text doesn't require the use of these key words.  They're
>>> used for clarity and consistency when you want that, but lots of
>>> normative text doesn't need to use them, and doesn't use them.

So you're saying that normative text MAY use key words?  Or it SHOULD
use key words?

Signed,
Confused