IETF Logo Mail Archive

Re: RFC 2119 terms, ALL CAPS vs lower case

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Wed, 16 May 2012 18:43 UTC

Return-Path: <stpeter@stpeter.im>
X-Original-To: ietf@ietfa.amsl.com
Delivered-To: ietf@ietfa.amsl.com
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ietfa.amsl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0809221F866C for <ietf@ietfa.amsl.com>; Wed, 16 May 2012 11:43:30 -0700 (PDT)
X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at amsl.com
X-Spam-Flag: NO
X-Spam-Score: -102.542
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-102.542 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.057, BAYES_00=-2.599, USER_IN_WHITELIST=-100]
Received: from mail.ietf.org ([12.22.58.30]) by localhost (ietfa.amsl.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id OO5eqFz2N31r for <ietf@ietfa.amsl.com>; Wed, 16 May 2012 11:43:29 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from stpeter.im (mailhost.stpeter.im [207.210.219.225]) by ietfa.amsl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B96E21F865A for <ietf@ietf.org>; Wed, 16 May 2012 11:43:29 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from [64.101.72.115] (unknown [64.101.72.115]) (Authenticated sender: stpeter) by stpeter.im (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9951D40067; Wed, 16 May 2012 12:59:12 -0600 (MDT)
Message-ID: <4FB3F54F.2030705@stpeter.im>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 12:43:27 -0600
From: Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Ole Jacobsen <ole@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: RFC 2119 terms, ALL CAPS vs lower case
References: <562A61B995B24BD854A4D154@192.168.0.2> <m262bwchr9.wl%randy@psg.com> <08ab01cd3372$65934110$30b9c330$@olddog.co.uk> <tslaa18w21n.fsf@mit.edu> <4FB3E99D.1040606@stpeter.im> <CAHBDyN6SVUxKm4K1__zu47qNup-RF1L8exfb8n9n199y7fpGAQ@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.OSX.2.01.1205161124380.47757@bxb-vpn3-744.cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.01.1205161124380.47757@bxb-vpn3-744.cisco.com>
X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: adrian@olddog.co.uk, Sam Hartman <hartmans-ietf@mit.edu>, ietf@ietf.org
X-BeenThere: ietf@ietf.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12
Precedence: list
List-Id: IETF-Discussion <ietf.ietf.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/options/ietf>, <mailto:ietf-request@ietf.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf>
List-Post: <mailto:ietf@ietf.org>
List-Help: <mailto:ietf-request@ietf.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf>, <mailto:ietf-request@ietf.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 18:43:30 -0000

On 5/16/12 12:26 PM, Ole Jacobsen wrote:
> 
> And of course if we had a slightly richer publication format we could 
> use, oh, say, underline, bold, italics and maybe even a special font 
> for normative terms, but I guess I am dreaming decades ahead...

Although I too dream the impossible dream, I would prefer not to trust
in formatting to enforce the semantic distinction in this instance.

Peter

v2.23.0 | Report a Bug | By Email