Re: LC-67 leftover -- MUST use MUST? from Lofton Henderson on 2003-06-26 (www-qa@w3.org from June 2003)

From: Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 09:29:51 -0600
To: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
Cc: www-qa@w3.org
Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20030626092330.03dd2de0@rockynet.com>

At 10:42 AM 6/26/03 -0400, Karl Dubost wrote:

>[...]
>Some people will argue that the RFC 2119 is made for software and should 
>be used only when you have implementations interoperability issues.

This is actually the issue LC-67 2nd part.  Our resolution of that is:  W3C 
(and others) have broadened the applicability, and RFC keywords are widely 
used in W3C (and elsewhere), in contexts other than software.  And also, we 
should have a QAWG-Comm liaison project to write a Note about this.

>At W3C, we do not only have specs which defines software implementation 
>but also semantics or concepts.

The new W3C Process Document uses RFC keywords.  (In lower-case bold.)

-Lofton.

Received on Thursday, 26 June 2003 11:29:52 UTC