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

"Scott O. Bradner" <sob@sobco.com> Tue, 09 August 2016 22:52 UTC

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my only suggestion would be to consider removing SHOULD

(semi-serious) 

Scott

> On Aug 9, 2016, at 4:08 PM, Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org> 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,  <internet-drafts@ietf.org> 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.
>> 
>

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