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Re: draft-homme-sieve-variables-03.txt

2004-08-12 12:02:03

Hi Kjetil,

--On Thursday, August 12, 2004 8:46 PM +0200 Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho(_at_)ifi(_dot_)uio(_dot_)no> wrote:

I think it has to be a MUST - we can't allow implementations to ignore
variables when they are actually used!

I'm kind of glad to see it's not only I who misremembers [KEYWORDS] :-)

1. MUST   This word, or the terms "REQUIRED" or "SHALL", mean that the
   definition is an absolute requirement of the specification.

I guess I read SHALL as SHOULD. As a quick (pointless) exercise I just grep'd my entire rfc document cache looking for MUST and SHALL (without double-quotes around them) and got:

MUST  - 28010
SHALL -  1777

Somehow MUST seems much more of an imperative to me than SHALL...

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Cyrus Daboo