On 9 Aug 2016, at 13:08, Barry Leiba wrote:
This draft should be self-explanatory -- and please be sure to look at
Section 1.1 for some explanations that may short-cut some of the
discussion.
The bottom line is to update BCP 14 (RFC 2119) to
(1) make it clear that the key words MUST(/NOT), SHOULD(/NOT), and MAY
are only key words when they're in ALL CAPS, and
(2) deprecate the use of the variants (SHALL, RECOMMENDED, OPTIONAL)
so as to avoid reserving an unnecessarily number of key words.
Discussion here, please, before Ben, who has kindly agreed to
AD-sponsor this, sends it out for last call. And we do expect there
to be some significant discussion on this one.
+1. It is short, focused, and makes RFCs easier to understand.
--Paul Hoffman