Re: ISSUE: 4.3 contradicts 5.2.3

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <873akctwht.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Russ Allbery <rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>I think the fix would be to change to something like this:

>  ...and is considered complete for any hierarchy for which it contains
>  a <valid-group> unless accompanied by external information limiting
>  its scope (such as a <chkscope> parameter to a checkgroups control
>  message as described in Section 5.2.3)

>and at the end, add:

>  ...MUST be listed unless its scope is limited by external information.

Yes, that should cover it, but you might add that, where there IS
"external information" (and maybe the chkscope shold be mentioned
explicitly), it SHOULD be listed.

>but I'm not horribly happy with that.  It feels awkward.  I suppose the
>other way of going about it is to redefine hierarchy, but I think that
>would be tricky to do.

A bit awkward, but good enough for our purpose (unless anyone can come up
with something better).

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