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Re: [tcpm] tcpsecure: how strong to recommend?

Joe Touch <touch@ISI.EDU> Tue, 25 September 2007 19:37 UTC

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Tom Petch wrote:
> all SHOULDs (I was not at the meeting)
> 
> I have been persuaded in the past, during IETF Last Calls, that  MAY might as
> well be MAY NOT in which case it conveys very little.  If it is worth expressing
> in an RFC, then it is worth a SHOULD.

There are plenty of RFCs that describe MAYs, FWIW. MAY means that it's
permissible and compliant to do something.

Joe
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