"Keith" == Keith Moore <moore(_at_)network-heretics(_dot_)com> writes:
>> In my view, SHOULD are user protocol options to set.
Keith> In my view, SHOULD should rarely be used for optional
Keith> protocol features, because optional protocol features should
Keith> themselves be rare. And the primary purpose of SHOULD is not
Keith> to permit optional protocol features.
Let me give an example of where I think SHOULD is useful:
a TLS end-point SHOULD verify the received certificate against
a trusted anchor.
Removing this requirement in SMTP-TLS has meant that we now have
opportunistically encrypted email transmission. It makes sense for the
TLS library to have this option.
In a web browser, the same SHOULD is much more controversial.
Some TLS libraries have this as a MUST, and there is all sorts of
trouble for people implementing other protocols or authentication
mechanisms over TLS.
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