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Re: [Ltru] Confusing conformance language



Hi -

> From: "McDonald, Ira" <imcdonald at sharplabs.com>
> To: <ltru at ietf.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 8:41 AM
> Subject: [Ltru] Confusing conformance language
...
> Randy - do you have an opinion here?
...

In the spirit of "be liberal in what you accept", I don't mind a
lowercase "should" or "must" when they would the most natural
way of saying something.  After all, the whole point of writing
the words as "SHOULD" and "MUST" is to distinguish them as
having their special standards-speak meanings.

Having said that, I think that in keeping with the principle of being
"conservative in what you send", it is good to avoid the lower-case
ones as much as is practical.

Since our AD has a preference, and the editors are willing, the
choice is simple.  :-)

Randy




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