Re: #612: Adopting pull #644

> On Nov 21, 2014, at 3:50 AM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
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> On 18 Nov 2014, at 7:36 pm, Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Regardless, unlike MAY and MUST, you can’t just use “SHOULD” and “SHOULD NOT” in a document. They require an explanation of why you should not, and under what circumstances your are allowed to do that something that your should not do.
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> While it is good practice, this is not a hard and fast rule, Yoav. Certainly there has been many an RFC published with an unqualified SHOULD (or ten). 

Not hard and fast, but recently it’s been a good way of getting gen—art comments and DISCUSSes.

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> Please don't portray your position as an absolute requirement of the IETF.
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>> So, if we agree with you, we need to complete the sentence, “HTTP/2.0 clients and server SHOULD NOT use ciphers from this list unless …”
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> "... unless the server is deployed to communicate with a known population of clients, or is willing to accept that some clients will refuse to communicate with it.”

WFM

Yoav

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