RE: [Ltru] Confusing conformance language

["Addison Phillips" <addison.phillips at quest.com>]

That's an easy enough edit for me to just run through and make, pace any thorny issues. In a random search, a number of the lowercase variety of 'must' SHOULD actually be normative language.

Addison

Addison P. Phillips
Globalization Architect, Quest Software
Chair, W3C Internationalization Core Working Group

Internationalization is not a feature.
It is an architecture. 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ltru-bounces at lists.ietf.org [mailto:ltru-bounces at lists.ietf.org] On
> Behalf Of McDonald, Ira
> Sent: 2005?6?8? 8:42
> To: ltru at ietf.org
> Subject: [Ltru] Confusing conformance language
> 
> 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
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