Scott Bradner <sob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> speaking as the editor of RFC 2119
> nice chart of how to misuse SHOULD but - imo - SHOULD is a MUST with an escape clause
> I do not think it is useful to use SHOULD without specifically saying
> what the escape clause is -
> i.e. specifically say when its OK to not act as if it was a MUST
I've gotten caught by this regularly.
I don't want to write MUST because if feels rude to be so demanding, and I
can envision *some* escape clause, I'm just not yet sure what it is yet.
That's wrong on my part.
> (if I had to do it all over again I would not have included SHOULD/SHOULD NOT)
It's hard to imagine some other word that would allow for the escape clause.
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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Sandelman Software Works
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