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- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:42:44 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5118
johnarwe@us.ibm.com changed:
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Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED
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------- Comment #3 from johnarwe@us.ibm.com 2007-10-25 13:42 -------
> A conforming SML-IF consumer is not REQUIRED to locate a referred document.
The lower case "not" is going to be easy for people to miss, and RFC 2119 does
not define a "NOT REQUIRED" qualifier. Propose changing to
"A conforming SML-IF consumer MAY locate a referred document. "
> If a conforming SML-IF consumer chooses to not locate a referred document, it MAY produce a message to that effect.
Propose changing
from: MAY produce a message to that effect.
to: SHOULD make its invoker aware of this condition.
"message" seems overly prescriptive, and I feel (strongly) this is a should not
a may. We do have some responsibility to guide implementors to do sensible
things, and silently ignoring something that a human looking at the smlif
instance would expect to be processed is more likely to surprise than to be
expected, even if it is legal.
Received on Thursday, 25 October 2007 13:42:54 UTC