John Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>* Whenever the keywords are used they are to be considered normative >>* Whenever the keywords are used they SHOULD be capitalized > > Ahem: > > * Whenever the keywords are used they MUST be capitalized I did an exercise today: I looked at the first item on Thursday's IESG Agenda, and I counted "may". I found - 6 occurances of upper-case "MAY", - 40 occurances of mixed-case "May", - 111 occurances of lower-case "may". I frankly can imagine no way to avoid occasional occurances of the month "May" -- in this case the header of every page. At least four of the lower-case "may"s were in the boilerplate. I dread to think how many grammarians might expire during a primal scream if we replaced over 100 "may"s with "can"s. ;^) >>* Editors SHOULD avoid use of normative keywords for non-normative >>language, even in drafts. Perhaps they should -- but what do folks actually want to do about documents like this? Those "May" months were probably added by automated software -- I hope nobody expects editors to end-run that! Likewise the boilerplate "may"s... We certainly shouldn't be asking the RFC Editor to "fix" over 100 lower-case "may"s. Should the Area Director send this back to the Working Group? Speak now (well, before Thursday morning) if you think so -- otherwise the IESG is likely to approve this document which so blatantly ignores the expressed wishes of this mailing-list. ;^) -- John Leslie <john@xxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf