> >> 2. I, too, noticed all the lower-case "should" and "may" words. I > >> suggest that the best way to handle this is to make the following > >> change to the RFC 2119 citation text at the beginning of section 2: > >> > >> NEW > >> The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", > >> "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this > >> document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119] when they > >> appear > >> in ALL CAPS. These words also appear in this document in lower case as > >> plain > >> English words, absent their normative meanings. > > > > I don't mind changing that, but ID-nits gives a warning when the text about > > keywords is changed and *everybody* likes to complain about that. Please > > talk to IESG about whether using a variant of the standard text is > > acceptable. > I've used text like this before, and the IESG has never objected to > it. One advantage with this formulation, which uses the standard 2119 > text and *appends* to it, is that idnits likes it and doesn't generate > a warning. More generally, ID-nits is supposed to be helpful. Straightjackets are not helpful. Ned _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf