On 9 Aug 2016, at 13:08, Barry Leiba wrote: > This draft should be self-explanatory -- and please be sure to look at > Section 1.1 for some explanations that may short-cut some of the > discussion. > > The bottom line is to update BCP 14 (RFC 2119) to > (1) make it clear that the key words MUST(/NOT), SHOULD(/NOT), and MAY > are only key words when they're in ALL CAPS, and > (2) deprecate the use of the variants (SHALL, RECOMMENDED, OPTIONAL) > so as to avoid reserving an unnecessarily number of key words. > > Discussion here, please, before Ben, who has kindly agreed to > AD-sponsor this, sends it out for last call. And we do expect there > to be some significant discussion on this one. +1. It is short, focused, and makes RFCs easier to understand. --Paul Hoffman