Re: [spfbis] #43: New requirement for mx: or ptr records

"Murray S. Kucherawy" <superuser@gmail.com> Thu, 30 August 2012 13:29 UTC

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Subject: Re: [spfbis] #43: New requirement for mx: or ptr records
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On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 11:19 PM, S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@elandsys.com> wrote:
> One of the RFC 2119 requirements appears in different sections of the draft.
> It's better not to restate normative text as it can lead to different
> interpretations in case of ambiguity.

This is something the RFC Editor will catch and send back as well.
It's best to state the normative stuff once and then reference it
elsewhere rather than repeating it.

(Also of interest: The RFC Editor will not allow document Y to use
normative language to summarize other normative language in document X
(and rightly so).  I discovered this during the final work on the
experiment document.)

-MSK