Re: Making RFC2119 key language easier to Protocol Readers
Abdussalam Baryun <abdussalambaryun@gmail.com> Sat, 05 January 2013 08:36 UTC
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Subject: Re: Making RFC2119 key language easier to Protocol Readers
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>IMO, too many specs seriously overuse/misuse 2119 language, to the detriment of readability, common sense, and reserving the terms to bring attention to those cases where it really is important to highlight an important point that may not be obvious to a casual reader/implementor. also to highlight an important point that may not be obvious to imlementors which are non-English speakers/writers. AB
- Making RFC2119 key language easier to Protocol Re… Abdussalam Baryun
- Re: Making RFC2119 key language easier to Protoco… Abdussalam Baryun
- Re: Making RFC2119 key language easier to Protoco… Abdussalam Baryun
- Re: Making RFC2119 key language easier to Protoco… Mikael Abrahamsson
- Re: Making RFC2119 key language easier to Protoco… Mikael Abrahamsson
- Re: Making RFC2119 key language easier to Protoco… Abdussalam Baryun
- Re: Making RFC2119 key language easier to Protoco… Abdussalam Baryun
- Re: Making RFC2119 key language easier to Protoco… Abdussalam Baryun
- Re: Making RFC2119 key language easier to Protoco… Abdussalam Baryun
- Re: Making RFC2119 key language easier to Protoco… Mikael Abrahamsson
- Re: Making RFC2119 key language easier to Protoco… John C Klensin
- Re: Making RFC2119 key language easier to Protoco… Hector Santos
- Re: Making RFC2119 key language easier to Protoco… Melinda Shore
- Re: Making RFC2119 key language easier to Protoco… Abdussalam Baryun
- Re: Making RFC2119 key language easier to Protoco… Marc Petit-Huguenin
- Re: Making RFC2119 key language easier to Protoco… Dean Willis
- Re: Making RFC2119 key language easier to Protoco… Dean Willis
- Re: Making RFC2119 key language easier to Protoco… Brian E Carpenter
- Re: Making RFC2119 key language easier to Protoco… Marc Petit-Huguenin
- Re: Making RFC2119 key language easier to Protoco… Abdussalam Baryun
- Re: Making RFC2119 key language easier to Protoco… John C Klensin
- Re: Making RFC2119 key language easier to Protoco… Abdussalam Baryun
- Re: Making RFC2119 key language easier to Protoco… John C Klensin