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Re: New Version Notification for: draft-baryun-rfc2119-update-00.txt

2012-08-01 11:08:29
On Aug 1, 2012, at 7:39 AM, Abdussalam Baryun wrote:

This is a useless change to a very stable document. No one reading RFCs
misunderstands what "if" and "else" mean.

We don't change the RFC2119 (IETF RFCs never can be changed) its only
update,

An update is a change.

no one before ever misunderstood "may" and "should" either but
capital letters made difference.

Both clauses in that sentence are incorrect. People very much misunderstood 
"should", which was one of the primary purposes for nailing it down in RFC 
2119. The capital letters don't actually make the difference, the definition of 
the words make the difference.

However, thanks for your comments,

No problem.

--Paul Hoffman