Hi, It's pretty much best practice in RFCs to avoid entirely the use of lowercase 'must' or 'should' as some dubious distinction from conformance imperatives 'MUST' or 'SHOULD' (RFC 2119 terms). The lowercase term 'must' appeared 28 times and the lowercase term 'should' appeared 31 times in the latest Registry version <draft-ietf-ltru-registry-03.txt>. The uppercase term 'MUST' appeared 88 times and the uppercase term 'SHOULD' appeared 21 times. While I realize it would be a pain to disentangle, replace, and disambiguate these lowercase uses, this is low-hanging fruit for an IETF last call objection. And it would cause too much rewriting to be handled as directives to the RFC Editor, in all likelihood. Randy - do you have an opinion here? Cheers, - Ira Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect) Blue Roof Music / High North Inc PO Box 221 Grand Marais, MI 49839 phone: +1-906-494-2434 email: imcdonald at sharplabs.com _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at lists.ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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