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Re: RFC2119 Keywords

2002-02-15 10:30:03
At 8:15 AM -0500 2/15/02, Scott Brim wrote:
In normative text, I don't see how "must" could occur anywhere except
where it was supposed to mean "MUST".

It occurs when describing how something happened, not what needs to happen. Example from a current Internet Draft that is having the capitalization fixed:

...not less than 3, but 4 is less than 5, so 4 must be the last digit.
->
...not less than 3, but 4 is less than 5, so 4 has to be the last digit.

There were a few places where the "must" turned into a "MUST" as a way of specifying how an implementation of the protocol had to work.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium



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