Re: BP - use of RFC2119

+1. It should be possible to associate these keywords to some kind of
check-list test, that would indeed be hard to do when humans are involved
as object of the test :)

Christophe


On 22 January 2015 at 00:12, Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A comment about the use of SHOULD, MUST, etc.
> It comes from my reading of the section on vocabularies
> http://w3c.github.io/dwbp/bp.html#dataVocabularies
> but it may be in many more places in the vocabularies...
>
> I am wondering whether we over-use RFC2119, or don't use it with the
> correct sentences. Our injunctions read sometimes weird, at least to me.
> For example:
>
> "Humans SHOULD be able to understand the vocabulary." and "Any person who
> wants to use or reuse a vocabulary SHOULD be able to do so."
> -> I cannot but smile at the idea our document specifies RFC2119
> requirements on humans ;-)
> To me requirements are rather on the artefacts than on the persons who
> interact with them.
>
> "The data SHOULD not be more complex to produce and re-use than what is
> necessary;"
> -> This hints that we already foresee cases in which it's fully
> understandable that in spite of our recommendations, it is ok to be more
> complex than mecessary. What would be these cases?
>
> "a first preliminary step SHOULD be to analyze whether"
> -> Can we stay that a step SHOULD be something?
>
> Compare with the following sentence, which read much less debatable:
> "the vocabulary SHOULD be actively maintained"
> "the vocabularies MUST have an associated sufficient documentation"
>
> I'm ready to accept I'm nitpicking on this, but I thought I would still
> ask, in case I'm not the only one a bit puzzled.
>
> Best,
>
> Antoine
>
>


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