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Re: 2119bis

2011-08-30 08:48:14
+1, too.

This goes along with my strong desire to eliminate passive voice, unless the 
goal is to have the actor be obfuscated (as an example).

On Aug 30, 2011, at 5:29 AM, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote:

2) I strongly believe that authors should be encouraged to enumerate the 
potential subjects of conformance terms, and to use them in every instance.

For example, a requirement like this:

"""The Foo header MUST contain the "bar" directive"""

is ambiguous; it doesn't specify who has to do what. Rather,

"""Senders MUST include the "bar" directive when producing the Foo header; 
recipients that receive a Foo header without a "bar" directive MUST ..."""

is unambiguous (assuming that the spec defines the terms "sender" and 
"recipient").

+1.

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