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

[Florent Bersani (florent.bersani]

Glen,

Glen Zorn (gwz) wrote:

> Jari Arkko writes:
>
> ...
>
>  
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> > > "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.
>  
I surely agree with the latter part of your remark.

For what regards the former, I was only saying that, in a document which 
authoritative status is unclear IMHO, the abundance of possible 
requirements key words is a real pain!
If you expect that the reader will engage in reflexions about whether 
sentences are normative or informative in a 73-page document, the I 
definitely  admire your optimism ;-)
Most of my concerns would be addressed if the document was split in two...

Florent, "Application data MAY be an empty string" as it is OPTIONAL 
that applications provide some ;-) and for sure, there are things much 
more interesting and worth doing than engaging in a thorough review of 
the hundreds of occurrences of the key words to see if they are in 
normative or informative sentences

>  
>
> > > (*) 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
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> > > and F.1
> > >      
> > Agreed.
> >
> > --Jari
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