On Oct 21, 2010, at 11:01 AM, Steve Atkins wrote:

> On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:53 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Take a tour through the eleven parts of Section 7 of RFC5451, and then 
>> Appendices A and C.  They provide all kinds of warnings about 
>> misinterpreting the data provided, which amounts to pretty firm 
>> implementation advice, and identifies ways you can shoot yourself in the 
>> foot.  But none of those sections are normative.  (Actually there are two 
>> SHOULDs in 7.4, but in retrospect they shouldn't really be there.)
>> 
>> That's what I'm advocating here: The normative stuff defines the core 
>> mechanics of the protocol itself, and the informative stuff explains why 
>> it's done that way, detailed implementation advice including stuff about 
>> other layers, and how one should (and shouldn't) interpret the output.
> 
> +1

+1


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