Re: [rtcweb] sector review of draft-ietf-rtcweb-rtp-usage-23

Colin Perkins <csp@csperkins.org> Wed, 10 June 2015 18:25 UTC

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On 10 Jun 2015, at 17:30, Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com> wrote:
> On 6/10/15 10:49, Magnus Westerlund wrote:
>>> page 6:
>>> 
>>> “This specification requires the usage of a single CNAME when sending
>>> RTP Packet Streams…”   should the “require” be “REQUIRE”?
>> 
>> This is intended as an informational reference, thus I propose to change this to "mandates" thus avoiding the RFC2119 terms.
> 
> RFC 2119 doesn't remove the words "require", "must", "should", "may" and "recommend" from the English language. If all you mean is the ordinary word "require," (rather than the 2119 term "REQUIRE"), then "require" is just fine.

The RFC 2119 term is "REQUIRED", not "REQUIRES" or "REQUIRE" anyway, but we have explicitly avoided lower-case versions of RFC 2119 terms in the draft, precisely to avoid any possible confusion.

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