Hi all, 11) Requirements language (MUST/SHOULD/MAY, etc.) needs discussion.
I have gotten the comment that: >In general are we planning to map "unconditional" and "conditional" >clauses into MAY/SHOULD/MUST etc. ? > >unconditionally mandatory --> MUST >conditionally mandatory --> MUST if the condition is true >conditionally optional ---> SHOULD >unconditionally optional ---> MAY It does not map exactly to SHOULD. SHOULD means that we recommend that one should implement this (but there might be reasons why one doesn't), where "conditionally optional" loses the recommendation part. I think I agree, and will make the change - however, this may cause some additional work in the future, to ensure that all of the requirement language usage makes sense for all types of devices, from servers to embedded stacks for lightbulbs. John -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
