RE: [idn] IDN WG Last Call: draft-ietf-idn-punycode-00.txt

["Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenbeck@verisign.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam M. Costello [mailto:idn.amc+0@nicemice.net.RemoveThisWord]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 4:43 PM
> To: IETF idn working group
> Subject: Re: [idn] IDN WG Last Call: draft-ietf-idn-punycode-00.txt
> 
> 
> That's one of the reasons I don't like capitalizing those words.  What
> if I'm reading a spec in which "must" is usually capitalized, but in one
> sentence it is lowercase.  Am I required to obey that sentence or not?
> At that point I think we're making distinctions that don't exist.

I recently (in the last month) went through the exact same issue with a
draft that had been sent to the IESG after WG last call.  I ended up having
to change non-normative uses of the 2119 terms to synonyms like "can" and
"might", and use upper case for the directives, to eliminate possible
confusion.  YMMV.

-Scott-