eap Mailing List: RE: Issue on eap-keying: capitalization of RFC 2119 requirements key words

[Glen Zorn (gwz) (gwz]

Jari Arkko writes:

...

> 
>> "The application data is optional and may not be
>>    used by some applications."
> 
> s/may not/MAY NOT/

Let's not get carried away.  Is this sentence normative or
informative?  I think the latter.  In any case, the "MAY NOT"
construct DOES NOT :-) appear in RFC 2119.

> 
>> (*) my word count script gives me the following results:
>> 
>> must 29
>> MUST 61
>> 
>> may 136
>> MAY 8
>> 
>> required 26
>> REQUIRED 2
>> 
>> shall 0
>> SHALL 2
>> 
>> should 17
>> SHOULD 24
>> 
>> recommended 4
>> RECOMMENDED 15
>> 
>> optional 11
>> OPTIONAL 1
> 
> Ok -- we need to look at each one...
> 
>> Requested change
>> 
>> Capitalize the key words mentioned here above i.e. at least in
6.1.1
>> and F.1
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> --Jari
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