Subject: Re: [urn] A 'newbie' question on the terminology used in RFCs

From: Peter Saint-Andre <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:30:09 -0700

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On 1/25/12 5:47 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> On 2012-01-25 13:33, Juha Hakala wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> RFC 2119, which is the sole authority as regards this issue, uses
>> (certainly intentionally) both upper-case and lower-case versions of
>> these words, and these terms do have different semantics:
>> ...
> 
> Again, reasonable people disagree on this, and you will questions about
> this again and again. The easiest fix is to avoid the issue by simply
> not using the lowercase variants.

+1. That's been my policy of late when writing specs.

Peter

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