On 2018-02-13 21:46, John C Klensin wrote:
... However, the second theory suggests a different option which, if someone wants to advocate (and presumably do the work), I would personally support if the RFC Editor had no objections. That would be to allow instructions to the RFC Editor and, presumably, a directive to XML2RFC, to specify the author's preferred English style. If that directive specified "American" (presumably the default, at least for historical reasons) then the boilerplate would be shifted to match that preference. If it specified "British", then that preference would be followed and the boilerplate would read as Lloyd and Stewart have suggested (with other parts of the boilerplate being made consistent). ...
A big -1, from a tools author, who couldn't care less about that distinction.
Pick one variant, and stick with it. Best regards, Julian