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Re: 2119bis

2011-08-30 08:51:31
I would offer that working groups that say to do something that may or may not 
hold in foreseen or unforeseen circumstances is most likely working on a 
protocol that is way too complex and is begging for interoperability problems.  
What ever happened to building simple, point-solution protocols that followed 
the hour-glass and end-to-end principles, and then building your complex 
protocols out of them?

On Aug 29, 2011, at 11:11 PM, Keith Moore 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

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