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Re: draft-congdon-radius-8021x



Thomas:

I think that the biggest difference is that "SHOULD" needs to be represented in the interoperability report for progression to Draft Standard, and "should" does not.

Russ


At 08:41 AM 4/16/2003 -0400, Thomas Narten wrote:
> 1.  The last paragraph of section 5.1, please change "should" to
> "SHOULD".  It says:

>       As a result, when used with IEEE 802.1X, all RADIUS packets are
>       authenticated and integrity protected, and should be replay protected
>       using IPsec.

I have a general concern here. IMO, "SHOULD" and "should" are pretty
much equivalent.  I.e., is it OK to ignore a "should" but not a
"SHOULD"? Do we expect folk to do that? Does "SHOULD" really carry
more weight than "should"? And if so, what does that say about
documents that don't use 2119 terminology?

Note: there is no general requirement that documents use 2119
language.  I suspect the community would not be pleased if we were to
require it. Personally, I tell people to use SHOULD, etc. in specific
cases where they are already using the language, but the wording in a
particular place is not clear. But I don't see it being that useful in
general to change a "should" to "SHOULD", etc.

I'm wary of going down this route as it has all sorts of implications
for how we review documents in general. Is this a direction we should
be going in?

Thomas