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

Reply via email to