Elwyn Davies <elwynd at dial dot pipex dot com> wrote: > The use of 'MUST' in many places but almost always 'may' is IMO > confusing. I think the problem is that the normative language is > (AFAICS) used to constrain the semantics of the XML schema - it isn't > about protocol behaviour. Now this is a reasonable use for this sort > of language but I think that at least some of the 'may's should also > be MAY. We may want to add this as a data point in the continuing debate over whether non-uppercased auxiliary verbs carry the same normative RFC 2119 meaning as uppercased ones. --Doug Ewell * Thornton, Colorado, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14http://www.ewellic.orghttp://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.htmlhttp://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages ˆ _______________________________________________Ietf mailing listIetf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf