Re: [Trans] Section 4.2 follow-up

Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com> Wed, 22 November 2017 11:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Trans] Section 4.2 follow-up
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On 21/11/17 19:33, Al Cutter wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 7:20 PM, Eran Messeri <eranm@google.com 
> <mailto:eranm@google.com>> wrote:
> 
>     [shortening subject]
> 
>     Two MUSTs are being discussed:
>     (1) "the log MUST NOT accept any submission until it has verified ..."
> 
> 
> Actually it's just this one, I think the one below was included possibly 
> by mistake (I mentioned to that to Rob when I spotted it on the PR).

Yeah, I misunderstood which MUSTs (in section 4.2) EKR (and Al) thought 
should be SHOULDs.

I've updated the PR.  This discussion is now only about whether or not 
that first "MUST NOT" should be changed to "SHOULD NOT".

 From the discussion on the PR, it seems that:
   - Eran and Andrew strongly prefer "MUST NOT".
   - EKR wrote "this is a WG decision" and so I presume he'll accept 
either "MUST NOT" or "SHOULD NOT".
   - Al is the sole proponent of changing it to "SHOULD NOT".

Al, can you live with "MUST NOT"?

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Rob Stradling
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