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Re: I'm struggling with 2219 language again

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Fri, 04 January 2013 22:49 UTC

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Subject: Re: I'm struggling with 2219 language again
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+1; this is what we're doing in HTTPbis.


On 05/01/2013, at 5:15 AM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> wrote:

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> Wonderful perennial topic. :)
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> As I always say when this comes up, when writing drafts I've settled
> on using the 2119 keywords only in their uppercase form, and otherwise
> using "need to", "ought to", "might" (etc.) to avoid all possible
> confusion. Sure, it's a bit stilted, but we're not writing gorgeous
> prose here, we're writing technical specifications that need to be
> completely clear.
> 
> Peter
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