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



"Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenbeck@verisign.com> wrote:

> An editorial comment: would it be possible to capitalize instances of
> the RFC 2119 directives "must", "may", "should", etc.?

It would certainly be *possible*.  :)

> Doing so will make it far easier for implementers to not miss
> something that might come back to bite them later.

I remain skeptical of that claim.  I personally find the all-caps MUST
SHOULD etc. to be distracting and not at all helpful.

If the group demands this then I'll write an awk script to take care of
it, but I'd rather not.

"Mark Davis (jtcsv)" <mark.davis@jtcsv.com> wrote:

> I would recommend adding some annotated examples of decoding to
> Punycode in a section 7.1 and referencing them from the text.

Good idea.

AMC