- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:10:16 +0200
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Cc: HTMLwg WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Mar 22, 2010, at 15:59, Sam Ruby wrote: > So what is the rationale for this restriction? I'll let Hixie respond to the question. >> When you talk about interop issues, do you mean actual interop issues >> with software deployed today (even if that software might fade away >> in the future) or interop issues in a future scenario where every >> piece of software conforms to the spec? > > If there are valid reasons to ignore a particular item, then a MUST is not appropriate. If you push "valid reasons" hard enough, you can just do s/MUST/SHOULD/g and then validator UIs can label SHOULD violations as "errors". You didn't say what sort of interop issues you are concerned about. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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