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BCP 14
RFC 8174
Title: RFC 2119 Key Words: Clarifying
the Use of Capitalization
Author: B. Leiba
Status: Best Current Practice
Stream: IETF
Date: May 2017
Mailbox: barryleiba@computer.org
Pages: 4
Characters: 6071
Updates: RFC 2119
See Also: BCP 14
I-D Tag: draft-leiba-rfc2119-update-02.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174
DOI: 10.17487/RFC8174
RFC 2119 specifies common key words that may be used in protocol
specifications. This document aims to reduce ambiguity by
clarifying that only UPPERCASE usage of the key words have the
defined special meanings.
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