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Re: Making RFC2119 key language easier to Protocol Readers

2013-01-15 00:16:45

On Jan 5, 2013, at 3:13 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson 
<swmike(_at_)swm(_dot_)pp(_dot_)se> wrote:

On Sat, 5 Jan 2013, Abdussalam Baryun wrote:

Hi Mikael

Also what it means following things in it that is not RFC2119 language.

It will mean, you should understand me/english/ietf/procedure even if
I don't have to explain, and you need to understand English well even
if you are a great implementor or great programming language speaker.

The problem here is that I want them to pay back some of the money (or take 
back the equipment totally and give back all money) for breach of contract, 
when I discover that they haven't correctly (as in intention and interop) 
implemented the RFC they said they said they were compliant in supporting.

Ianal, but it feels that it should easier to do this if there are MUST and 
SHOULD in there and I asked them to document all deviations from these.


What about when the MUST and SHOULD are in the context of "Alice MUST send a 
request message to Bob" and you don't have users named Alice or Bob?

Seriously -- at what point does replacing all action verbs with 2119 language 
make the protocol spec LESS useful for compliance certification?

--
Dean


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