Subject: RE: url clarification

From: "McDonald, Ira" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:48:34 -0800

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email-masked] [mailto:[email-masked]]On
> Behalf Of Andy Bierman
>
> (snip)
> 
> To be picky, it says should instead of SHOULD.
> It really doesn't mean anything normative.
> 
> It doesn't say you better hope nobody deletes the local or remote
> file before the edit-config is done either.  (Since lock is 
> disallowed,
> all you can do is hope ;-)
> 

To be picky, in IETF LTRU (Language Tag Registry Update) we were
eventually strongly encouraged (by IESG members) to remove entirely
the use of lowercase must or should as meaningless and confusing.
This was done late in the process of working drafts and caused the
discovery of a large number of dubious imperatives.

Cheers,
- Ira

Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
phone: +1-906-494-2434
email: [email-masked]

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