Re: APPSDIR review of draft-ietf-netmod-rfc6021-bis-01

2013-05-09 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, May 09, 2013 09:28 +0200 Randy Bush wrote: >> Similarly, "wherever possible" is unhelpful; if it's not >> possible to fully-qualify a domain name then ambiguity is >> guaranteed. > > no, that is what SHOLD means. e.g. when i write docco that > has an ops clause where there is l

Re: APPSDIR review of draft-ietf-netmod-rfc6021-bis-01

2013-05-09 Thread Randy Bush
>>> MAY != SHOULD >> The text is as follows: "The name SHOULD be fully qualified whenever >> possible". If the working group would like a RFC 2119 SHOULD it >> would help if there is an explanation in the sentence for the reader >> weigh the implications of not following that. > My knee-jerk react

Re: APPSDIR review of draft-ietf-netmod-rfc6021-bis-01

2013-05-08 Thread Martin Rex
S Moonesamy wrote: > At 01:32 30-04-2013, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote: > >I am not sure what you think is unclear. Note that the definition of > >the typedef domain-name is unchanged from the one in RFC 6021. Perhaps > >you can make a concrete text change proposal so I better understand > >what you

Re: APPSDIR review of draft-ietf-netmod-rfc6021-bis-01

2013-05-08 Thread Joe Abley
On 2013-05-08, at 17:30, S Moonesamy wrote: > At 12:53 08-05-2013, Randy Bush wrote: >> MAY != SHOULD > > The text is as follows: "The name SHOULD be fully qualified whenever > possible". If the working group would like a RFC 2119 SHOULD it would help > if there is an explanation in the senten

Re: APPSDIR review of draft-ietf-netmod-rfc6021-bis-01

2013-05-08 Thread S Moonesamy
At 12:53 08-05-2013, Randy Bush wrote: MAY != SHOULD The text is as follows: "The name SHOULD be fully qualified whenever possible". If the working group would like a RFC 2119 SHOULD it would help if there is an explanation in the sentence for the reader weigh the implications of not follow

Re: APPSDIR review of draft-ietf-netmod-rfc6021-bis-01

2013-05-08 Thread Randy Bush
>"The domain-name type represents a DNS domain name. The > name SHOULD be fully qualified whenever possible." > > That sounds like a MAY. MAY != SHOULD

Re: APPSDIR review of draft-ietf-netmod-rfc6021-bis-01

2013-05-08 Thread S Moonesamy
At 01:32 30-04-2013, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote: I am not sure what you think is unclear. Note that the definition of the typedef domain-name is unchanged from the one in RFC 6021. Perhaps you can make a concrete text change proposal so I better understand what your concern is. I read draft-ie