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RE: [Ltru] Re: Confusing conformance language



Dang. I made the change but must not have hit save that extra time before xml2rfc'ing it.

> 
> I hope you're not trying to capitalize all "should", some are
> in examples, or all "must" (e.g. "special thanks MUST go to"
> etc. would be nonsense... ;-)

No, I know better than that. I used search and replace manually, doing manual edits as necessary. Some of these might have been wrong, of course.

> "Informative" reference:  RfC 3092, the etymology of "foo".
> Unfortunately it doesn't explain XYZZY (for MAY-be not).  Bye.

That's just about what xyzzy does. IIRC, a typical response to that command is "nothing happens". But defining it probably requires your IANA Considerations section to begin "You are in a twisty maze of passages..."

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 Frank Ellermann
> Sent: 2005?6?9? 12:16
> To: ltru at ietf.org
> Subject: [Ltru] Re: Confusing conformance language
> 
> Addison Phillips wrote:
> 
> > All of the normative language is now normalized in the
> > editor's copy.
> 
> The -04 with date June 03 ?  I'm not sure what Scott checks,
> but Bruce could note that "SHALL NOT" is defined but not used.
> 
> I hope you're not trying to capitalize all "should", some are
> in examples, or all "must" (e.g. "special thanks MUST go to"
> etc. would be nonsense... ;-)
> 
> And if they'd insist on it roll your own terminologoy, start
> with STRONGLY (for SHOULD), VERY REALLY (for MUST), FOO (for
> SHOULD NOT), and FOOBAR (for MUST NOT).
> 
> "Informative" reference:  RfC 3092, the etymology of "foo".
> Unfortunately it doesn't explain XYZZY (for MAY-be not).  Bye.
> 
> 
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