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Re: A proposal for a scientific approach to this question [was Re: I'm struggling with 2219 language again]

2013-01-07 06:28:29
As you are guessing that is unlikely, however, the more pertinent question is whether it has prevented some innovative approach to implementations. This would be the more interesting question.

We tend to think of these as state machines and describe them accordingly. There are other approaches which might be prevented if using a MUST when it wasn't needed.

At 10:53 AM +0000 1/7/13, Stewart Bryant wrote:
Speaking as both a reviewer and an author, I would like
to ground this thread to some form of reality.

Can anyone point to specific cases where absence or over
use of an RFC2119 key word caused an interoperability failure,
or excessive development time?

- Stewart

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