The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words' <draft-leiba-rfc2119-update-01.txt> as Best Current Practice
The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the [email protected] mailing lists by 2017-03-09. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to [email protected] instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract RFC 2119 specifies common key words that may be used in protocol specifications. This document aims to reduce the ambiguity by clarifying that only UPPERCASE usage of the key words have the defined special meanings. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-leiba-rfc2119-update/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-leiba-rfc2119-update/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
