Re: "Ought"

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From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Jan 06 2001 - 14:19:02 CST


In <yl66jto8lj.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

>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.

This is clearly a borderline case. There will be plenty more difficult
calls to make in succeeding sections. I suggest we proceed into those and
see what further precedents we encounter. We may feel we understand it
better when we have discussed some more real cases. (Then again, we may
not :-( ).

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