RE: [Ltru] Confusing conformance language

["McDonald, Ira" <imcdonald at sharplabs.com>]

Hi Scott,

Thanks for your quick feedback.  Addison already replied that
he was willing to work through and replace or uppercase the
pseudo-imperatives.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Hollenbeck [mailto:sah at 428cobrajet.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 6:32 PM
> To: 'McDonald, Ira'; ltru at ietf.org
> Subject: RE: [Ltru] Confusing conformance language
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: McDonald, Ira [mailto:imcdonald at sharplabs.com] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 11:42 AM
> > 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?
> 
> I do, and I'd prefer that the lower case forms NOT be used to 
> avoid just the
> sort of potential confusion described above.  The IESG 
> doesn't seem to deal
> with it consistently, either, so it's best to avoid the issue 
> completely if
> at all possible.
> 
> -Scott-
> 

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