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Re: [rfc-i] RECOMMENDS

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Tue, 02 January 2024 01:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rfc-i] RECOMMENDS
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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?

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