On 8/13/2016 8:19 AM, John Levine wrote:
In article
<1F51808A-374F-478B-8036-902E079F53D7(_at_)randy(_dot_)pensive(_dot_)org> you
write:
I've written text such as "For clients, support for X is REQUIRED."
So have I, but then I rewrote it as "Clients MUST support X."
Really, John. That's unfortunate.
The first form is so much more... literary.
Besides that, it really is much better to have multiple ways to
formulate the same semantic. We like doing it in protocols, so why
shouldn't we enjoy doing it in our specifications?
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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