On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Aug 29, 2011, at 10:44 PM, Eric Burger wrote: > >> I would offer that ANY construction of SHOULD without an UNLESS is a MAY. > > The essential beauty of SHOULD is that it gets specification writers and > working groups out of the all-too-common rathole of trying to anticipate and > nail down every exceptional case. > Keith +1, and thats the problem with this new interpretation and its unwritten form has already been used in a WG to label a group participants as 2119 illiterates and any software that has implemented a SHOULD as already non-compliant. -- hls _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf