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RE: RFC 2119 terms, ALL CAPS vs lower case

"Adrian Farrel" <adrian@olddog.co.uk> Wed, 16 May 2012 18:45 UTC

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From: Adrian Farrel <adrian@olddog.co.uk>
To: 'Peter Saint-Andre' <stpeter@stpeter.im>, 'Ole Jacobsen' <ole@cisco.com>
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Subject: RE: RFC 2119 terms, ALL CAPS vs lower case
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 19:45:28 +0100
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Remind me:
Is bold must more or less compelling that underlined must. And where does uppercase MUST fit in?

I fear the slightly richer publication format will give rise to a slightly more complex revision of RFC 2119.

Adrian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Saint-Andre [mailto:stpeter@stpeter.im]
> Sent: 16 May 2012 19:43
> To: Ole Jacobsen
> Cc: Mary Barnes; adrian@olddog.co.uk; Sam Hartman; ietf@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: RFC 2119 terms, ALL CAPS vs lower case
> 
> 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

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