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Re: APPSDIR review of draft-ietf-netmod-rfc6021-bis-01

2013-05-08 16:56:08
On 2013-05-08, at 17:30, S Moonesamy <sm+ietf(_at_)elandsys(_dot_)com> wrote:

At 12:53 08-05-2013, Randy Bush wrote:
MAY != SHOULD

The text is as follows: "The name SHOULD be fully qualified whenever 
possible".  If the working group would like a RFC 2119 SHOULD it would help 
if there is an explanation in the sentence for the reader weigh the 
implications of not following that.

My knee-jerk reaction is to use MUST. Partially-qualified domain names
are ambiguous at best.

Similarly, "wherever possible" is unhelpful; if it's not possible to
fully-qualify a domain name then ambiguity is guaranteed.


Joe