Re: 2119bis

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Please make my English language sensibilities and satisfy Burger's Second Law of standards documents at the same time, forbidding passive voice.  Can we have the following as the boilerplate?  Thanks.

Either:

In this document, [RFCXXXX] describes the following conformance terms: "MUST", ...

Or:

[RFCXXXX] describes the following conformance terms used in this document: "MUST", ...


Also, from a typographic point of view, why are we quoting single worlds that are already in quotes?


On Aug 29, 2011, at 5:36 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:

> After staring at http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?eid=499 for
> long enough, I finally decided to submit an I-D that is intended to
> obsolete RFC 2119. I hope that I've been able to update and clarify the
> text in a way that is respectful of the original. Feedback is welcome.
> 
> http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-saintandre-2119bis-01.txt
> 
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