On 2011-08-30 at 07:36:58, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > for long enough, I finally decided to submit an I-D that is intended > to obsolete RFC 2119. <bike-shed> IS THERE ANY CHANCE OF AGREEING THAT SHOUTING IS BAD? (i.e., Burger's first anti-law.) As opposed to mandating that requirements ought to be shouted. Lowercase "must" can be as effective as uppercase as long as it is consistently applied. </bike-shed> On a more serious note, many documents lean too heavily on conformance terms. A gentle reminder that conformance terms ought to be sparingly used might not go astray here. It's just like the F-bomb, it's a F-ing big deal if used infrequently enough. People are more likely to pay attention when it's rare. --Martin _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf