Re: Uppercase question for RFC2119 words

[John C Klensin <[e-mail]>]

Yes.  +1.  About time and long overdue.

    john


--On Monday, March 28, 2016 10:09 -0400 Barry Leiba
<[e-mail]> wrote:

> Ah.  Then perhaps the clarification needs to go a little
> further and make this clear:
> - We're defining specific terms that specifications can use.
> - These terms are always capitalized when these definitions
> are used. - You don't have to use them.  If you do, they're
> capitalized and their meanings are as specified here.
> - There are similar-looking English words that are not
> capitalized, and they have their normal English meanings; this
> document has nothing to do with them.
> 
> ...and I'd like to add one more, because so many people think
> that text isn't normative unless it has 2119 key words in all
> caps in it:
> 
> - 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.