Re: [netmod] use cases was: finish up

["Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn at mindspring.com>]

Hi -

> From: "Phil Shafer" <phil at juniper.net>
> To: "Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn at mindspring.com>
> Cc: <netmod at ietf.org>
> Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 6:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [netmod] use cases was: finish up 
...
> I read "MUST if xxxx" as "MAY", in which case "conditionally
> mandatory" means "the implementor must read the description to know
> what they are doing", which is unavoidable on the server side.
> I do not read "MAY" as the "implementation's whims", since
> the implementor must live by the rules in the description.

RFC 2119 doesn't support that reading.  It says "[t]his word, or
the adjective 'OPTIONAL', mean[s] that an item is truly optional."

Randy