Re: #1047 Path-identity: A proposal (perhaps)

[John Stanley <stanley@xxxxxxxx>]

"Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

>   News-servers need to identify themselves by inserting their public
>   name, in the form of a <path-identity> (F-3.1.6), into Path,
>   Injection-Info and Xref headers. An injecting agent MUST identify
>   itself with the same <path-identity> in both Path and Injection-Info
>   headers.  To ensure that a <path-identity> provides a unique identity
>   for the news-server concerned, it SHOULD be one of: ..........

s/headers/header fields/g;

>>Global uniqueness is an interoperability requirement ("to work properly");
>>s/must/MUST/ would make that clear.

>I think the USEPRO text above covers that.

There is no MUST regarding uniqueness. There is only a SHOULD as to what 
it is "one of".