Re: [urn] A 'newbie' question on the terminology used in RFCs
Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Thu, 09 February 2012 20:30 UTC
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Subject: Re: [urn] A 'newbie' question on the terminology used in RFCs
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<hat type='individual'/> On 1/25/12 5:47 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: > On 2012-01-25 13:33, Juha Hakala wrote: >> Hello, >> >> RFC 2119, which is the sole authority as regards this issue, uses >> (certainly intentionally) both upper-case and lower-case versions of >> these words, and these terms do have different semantics: >> ... > > Again, reasonable people disagree on this, and you will questions about > this again and again. The easiest fix is to avoid the issue by simply > not using the lowercase variants. +1. That's been my policy of late when writing specs. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
- [urn] A 'newbie' question on the terminology used… Bengt Neiss
- Re: [urn] A 'newbie' question on the terminology … Julian Reschke
- Re: [urn] A 'newbie' question on the terminology … Alfred Hönes
- Re: [urn] A 'newbie' question on the terminology … Julian Reschke
- Re: [urn] A 'newbie' question on the terminology … Juha Hakala
- Re: [urn] A 'newbie' question on the terminology … Julian Reschke
- Re: [urn] A 'newbie' question on the terminology … Juha Hakala
- Re: [urn] A 'newbie' question on the terminology … Peter Saint-Andre