Re: "Ought"

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From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 05 2001 - 17:57:44 CST


Erland Sommarskog <sommar@algonet.se> writes:

> Apart from that think it is not a very good idea altogether, I find it
> difficult to believe that we'll ever manage to explain to IETF that
> there is an interoperability issue at hand.

Yeah, this really is something that, if in the standard, makes me feel
like I should raise it at Last Call as an inappropriate use of RFC 2119
terminology. It certainly is outside our scope.

> Thus, insisting on SHOULD here will only delay the promotion of Usefor
> as an RFC. Then again, what is not delaying, so who cares anyway...

There is that.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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