Re: QASG last call comments: Case of RFC2119 terms

Le 19 janv. 2005, à 09:54, Ian Hickson a écrit :
> "3.2 Requirement A: Use a consistent style for conformance
> requirements and explain how to distinguish them." mentions that
> RFC2119 terms are uppercase, but it should be noted that nothing in
> RFC2119 (other than consistent usage as such) requires them to be used
> in uppercase, despite specifications frequently explicitly mentioning
> that they use lowercase variants instead.

I had difficulties to find what you were talking about. You are talking 
about the techniques verbiage for this point:

[[[
Using RFC 2119 [RFC2119] Keywords (MUST, SHOULD, MAY, ...) makes it 
easy to spot conformance requirements, due to their specific uppercase 
formatting; according to the RFC itself, they should be used only to 
establish interoperation [WIKI-RFC-KEYWORDS];
]]]

The sentence says "due to their specific uppercase formatting" which 
indeed can be misleading because it's not required by the RFC 2119 spec 
itself
	http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt



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Received on Monday, 31 January 2005 14:50:43 UTC