RE: [Ltru] Confusing conformance language

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

Hi Addison,

Then I guess you have your AD's clear direction to content with.
I see nothing wrong with word substitution to avoid lowercase
must (almost never needed) or should (a mere convention to use
this verb).

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: ltru-bounces at lists.ietf.org 
> [mailto:ltru-bounces at lists.ietf.org]On
> Behalf Of Addison Phillips
> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 9:42 AM
> To: Randy Presuhn; ltru at ietf.org
> Subject: RE: [Ltru] Confusing conformance language
> 
> 
> Some of the changes to normative language turn out to be 
> natural (we really meant to be normative). Other changes (to 
> avoid using the lowercase) required either an extensive 
> rewrite or the need for word substitution (silly).
> 
> Should and must were relatively easy. "May" is downright 
> impossible, since that word can be used in more than one way...
> 
> 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 Randy Presuhn
> > Sent: 2005?6?8? 21:16
> > To: ltru at ietf.org
> > Subject: 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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