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Re: My two cents on draft-leiba-rfc2119-update

"HANSEN, TONY L" <tony@att.com> Thu, 11 August 2016 15:15 UTC

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From: "HANSEN, TONY L" <tony@att.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org>
Subject: Re: My two cents on draft-leiba-rfc2119-update
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I like this boiler plate wording a little bit better than what is in draft-leiba-rfc2119-update.

I think it will better end the ambiguity as to whether lowercase is intended to be normative within the document.

However, I’m not convinced it will reduce the amount of discussion as to whether a particular use of one of these words in a document should have been written in ALL CAPS.

	Tony Hansen

On 8/10/16, 9:51 PM, "ietf on behalf of Randy Bush" <ietf-bounces@ietf.org on behalf of randy@psg.com> wrote:

    fwiw, i have been using the following for some years
    
    Requirements Language
    
       The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
       "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" are to
       be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119] only when they
       appear in all upper case.  They may also appear in lower or mixed
       case as English words, without normative meaning.
    
    randy

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