On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Martin Sustrik wrote:
> For an implementor it's often pretty hard to decide whether to
> implement functionality marked as SHOULD given that he has zero context
> and no idea whether the reason he has for not implementing the feature is
> at all in line with RFC authors' intentions.
For me, I would say that unless the implementor in question has experience in
designing protocols, and fairly deep understanding of that particular area, they
are not in a position to make a good judgement on whether or not they can ignore
a 'SHOULD'.
Noel
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