Pekka wrote:
>You apparently consider SHOULD as almost a MUST.

>I support SHOULD in this case; it's meant for manually configured
>nodes, really.  I certainly want to be able to manually configure my
>systems _if I want to_.

>You've convincing reasons why you don't want to implement that -- always
>use autoconfiguration.  (I suspect you're dealing with small devices
>which cannot really be "configured" anyway).  It's okay.

You are correct, as I interpret things, SHOULD implys you better have a
good reason not to do something, and be able to back it up.   I typically
interrpret shoulds as almost a must is because sooner or later we'll get an
RFP based on this type of document, and anything marked MUST and SHOULD
gets marked as MUST in the RFP.  Happens all the time.

MAY on the otherhand is vendor specific, if you want to do it, or your
customers desire it, go right ahead.  It doesn't stop manually configured
nodes the ability to manually configure.

Adam Machalek


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