John Levine <johnl(_at_)iecc(_dot_)com> wrote:
* Whenever the keywords are used they are to be considered normative
* Whenever the keywords are used they SHOULD be capitalized
Ahem:
* Whenever the keywords are used they MUST be capitalized
I did an exercise today: I looked at the first item on Thursday's
IESG Agenda, and I counted "may".
I found
- 6 occurances of upper-case "MAY",
- 40 occurances of mixed-case "May",
- 111 occurances of lower-case "may".
I frankly can imagine no way to avoid occasional occurances of the
month "May" -- in this case the header of every page.
At least four of the lower-case "may"s were in the boilerplate.
I dread to think how many grammarians might expire during a primal
scream if we replaced over 100 "may"s with "can"s. ;^)
* Editors SHOULD avoid use of normative keywords for non-normative
language, even in drafts.
Perhaps they should -- but what do folks actually want to do about
documents like this?
Those "May" months were probably added by automated software --
I hope nobody expects editors to end-run that! Likewise the boilerplate
"may"s...
We certainly shouldn't be asking the RFC Editor to "fix" over 100
lower-case "may"s.
Should the Area Director send this back to the Working Group?
Speak now (well, before Thursday morning) if you think so -- otherwise
the IESG is likely to approve this document which so blatantly ignores
the expressed wishes of this mailing-list.
;^)
--
John Leslie <john(_at_)jlc(_dot_)net>
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