To:
"Edward Lewis" <Ed.Lewis@Neustar.biz>, <ietf-provreg@cafax.se>
From:
"Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenbeck@verisign.com>
Date:
Wed, 17 Aug 2005 07:22:59 -0400
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[ietf-provreg] 3730 <poll> Text Change Proposal
Subject:
RE: [ietf-provreg] 3730 <poll> Text Change Proposal
> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-ietf-provreg@cafax.se > [mailto:owner-ietf-provreg@cafax.se] On Behalf Of Edward Lewis > Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 4:02 PM > To: ietf-provreg@cafax.se > Cc: ed.lewis@Neustar.biz > Subject: Re: [ietf-provreg] 3730 <poll> Text Change Proposal > > At 14:04 -0400 8/16/05, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > >On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 01:27:56PM -0400, Hollenbeck, Scott wrote: > >> NEW: > >> Service messages can be created for all clients affected > by an action on > >> an object that did not directly execute the action. For example, > >> <transfer> actions can be reported to the client that has > the authority > >> to approve or reject a transfer request. Other methods > of server-client > >> action notification, such as offline reporting, are also > possible and > >> are beyond the scope of this specification. > > > >I like this, myself. Do we want to make the "can"s in there SHOULDs > >instead? (I don't, really, but this is a pretty dramatic weakening > >from the MUST we had before. Looking at the archives, there seem to > >have been some people arguing for a much more important poll queue.) > > The change confuses me. Instead of relaxing from MUST to SHOULD, the > change eliminates any "standards" words. Ed, the primary reason I thought it best to ditch 2119 keywords is that this part of the spec isn't describing an interoperability issue. It's describing an implementation issue. I'm OK with a SHOULD if that makes it more clear that the text is describing implementation guidance instead of a protocol mandate, but I think a "can" works here, too. -Scott-