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Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Tue, 02 January 2024 02:36 UTC

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On 02-Jan-24 14:32, Michael Richardson wrote:
> 
> Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
>      > As I'm sure we all know, this keyword is not defined in RFC 2119 or RFC
>      > 8174, but it is present in RFCs spanning at least 2002 through 2021. (A
>      > subtlety is that in RFC 8995, it is not in bold-face in the HTML
>      > version.)
> 
> Oh. I thought it was a synonym for SHOULD, and that we just used it because
> sometimes it felt better.
> 
> I guess I never looked.  I wonder why the RPC didn't fix it?

It's only a nit, but not one that is detected automatically. But,
despite the fact that it's only a part-of-speech error, it feels
wrong to me that it's not "official". I wouldn't exclude that a
picky lawyer could, well, pick on it.

We don't, fortunately, have a plague of "OPTIONALLY", although
lower case "optionally" is common.

    Brian


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