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>> 2. I, too, noticed all the lower-case "should" and "may" words. I >> suggest that the best way to handle this is to make the following >> change to the RFC 2119 citation text at the beginning of section 2: >> >> NEW >> The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", >> "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this >> document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119] when they >> appear >> in ALL CAPS. These words also appear in this document in lower case as >> plain >> English words, absent their normative meanings. > > I don't mind changing that, but ID-nits gives a warning when the text about > keywords is changed and *everybody* likes to complain about that. Please > talk to IESG about whether using a variant of the standard text is > acceptable. I've used text like this before, and the IESG has never objected to it. One advantage with this formulation, which uses the standard 2119 text and *appends* to it, is that idnits likes it and doesn't generate a warning. Barry _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf