Re: Uppercase question for RFC2119 words

[Dick Franks <[e-mail]>]

On 28 March 2016 at 23:04, David Farmer <[e-mail]> wrote:

>
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 3:55 PM, John Levine <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>> >>> - 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
>>
>
> Personally, I believe normative text SHOULD use the capitalized keywords.
>
Your opinion


>   However, I'm worried we only really have consensus for MAY.
>
Many others' opinion.

if (SHOULD) {

Additionally, It would also be useful to provide a recommendation regarding
> advancing specification to Internet Standard (RFC6410), is adherence to
> RFC2119 an important issue in that regard?
>
No


>   And, are capitalized keywords more or less important than the overall
> stability of the text in that process.
>
Less


> Put more directly, should specifications be updated with capitalized
> keywords as part of that process?
>
No


>   Or, is it more important to keep the text the same?
>
Yes

} else {

Additionally, It would also be useful to provide a recommendation regarding
> advancing specification to Internet Standard (RFC6410), is adherence to
> RFC2119 an important issue in that regard?
>
No


>   And, are capitalized keywords more or less important than the overall
> stability of the text in that process.
>
Less


> Put more directly, should specifications be updated with capitalized
> keywords as part of that process?
>
No


>   Or, is it more important to keep the text the same?
>
Yes

... I think clearly stating the consensus is only MAY would be helpful and
> might short circuit some unnecessary [discussion].
>
Irrelevant

}


As the man said, natural language usage MAY be used, even others think it
SHOULD NOT.