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Re: 2119bis

2011-08-29 22:41:52
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Keith Moore
<moore(_at_)network-heretics(_dot_)com> wrote:
On Aug 29, 2011, at 10:44 PM, Eric Burger wrote:

I would offer that ANY construction of SHOULD without an UNLESS is a MAY.

The essential beauty of SHOULD is that it gets specification writers and
working groups out of the all-too-common rathole of trying to anticipate and
nail down every exceptional case.
Keith

+1,  and thats the problem with this new interpretation and its
unwritten form has already been used in a WG to label a group
participants as 2119 illiterates and any software that has implemented
a SHOULD as already non-compliant.

-- 
hls
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