Re: RFC 2119 terms, ALL CAPS vs lower case
2012-05-16 09:42:58
At 9:59 -0400 5/16/12, Barry Leiba wrote:
It's probably worth having a discussion of all of that, and seeing
whether there's some possibility of developing a rough community consensus
on what we might-could-maybe-oughta-should do.
What I've run into, a couple of times, in the past few years are
customer documents, such as RFP (request for proposals) that ask
about compliance with RFC documents. In that role it doesn't really
matter whether the RFC 2119 words are written one way or another, the
pain is that RFCs generally do not define what it means to be
compliant.
Granted the RFC series is not intended to be (all) requirements
documents nor standards documents against which compliance can be
judged. I am not saying the RFC series is deficient in the role it
is intended to play. But if there is a discussion on the topic of
the RFC 2119 words, I'd encourage giving thought to appeasing those
that want documents against which compliance can be judged.
Perhaps a sub-series of RFC documents can be tagged for compliance
applicability, written in way that testing of requirements is
possible, and so on. In such a sub-series, special-meaning words
would matter. In all other documents, all words would "revert" to
their natural meanings. E.g., SHOULD would be the same as "ought
to", MUST would be the same as "it has to be" and so on.
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