Re: Éric Vyncke's No Objection on draft-ietf-httpbis-incremental-03: (with COMMENT)

• From: Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net>
• Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:03:11 +1100
• To: Éric Vyncke (evyncke) <evyncke@cisco.com>, "The IESG" <iesg@ietf.org>
• Cc: "draft-ietf-httpbis-incremental@ietf.org" <draft-ietf-httpbis-incremental@ietf.org>, httpbis-chairs@ietf.org, ietf-http-wg@w3.org, "Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net>
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Hi Éric,

On Tue, Feb 3, 2026, at 21:22, Éric Vyncke via Datatracker wrote:
> Per
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/statement-iesg-statement-on-clarifying-the-use-of-bcp-14-key-words/,
> the SHOULD cannot appear alone.

We're dealing with these in some greater detail in responses to Med and Roman.  Thanks for highlighting that.  The "SHOULD" usage in this document is unfortunate, but a consequence of the protocol environment.  HTTP is full of them for the same reasons.

Received on Tuesday, 3 February 2026 23:03:37 UTC