On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 09:15:19PM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote: > 1) So, BCPs can point to multiple documents. > BCP14 actually is RFC2119 and RFC8174 now, so we can add a third document > if > desired. That is, it's cheaper to not spin 2119.
Sure. Plus, RFC2119 is iconic, and used far and wide outside the IETF. > 2) I'm not claiming others won't use it, I just don't know if they will. > Crypto progresses... what other things do that in the same way? Any time we have a migration from one [sub]protocol to a newer one and need to retain support for the old one for a while, we will need something like SHOULD-. I agree this comes up most often in the context of cryptographic algorithms. Nico -- _______________________________________________ Anima mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/anima
