meaning of 'can'?

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Originally submitted by josephheenan (Joseph Heenan) on 2017-03-14

Is there any semantic difference between 'can' and 'may', as both are used here:

https://bitbucket.org/openid/fapi/annotate/8d420fd67b79a1b72c29fac4ea38e6db2b0ff61d/Financial_API_WD_001.md?at=master&fileviewer=file-view-default#Financial_API_WD_001.md-279

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2119 only defines 'may', should 'can' be changed to 'may'? (Should there be a reference that the terms have the rfc2119 meaning?)

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Bitbucket status: resolved

Bitbucket origin: issue 76

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Originally submitted by SaschaZeGerman (Sascha Preibisch) on 2017-03-15

I agree that 'may' should be used since it aligns with the rest of the document. In addition 'can optionally ...' is probably the same as 'may' anyways.

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Originally submitted by dgtonge (Dave Tonge) on 2017-03-23

This issue was fixed with this pull request:
https://bitbucket.org/openid/fapi/pull-requests/11/76-changed-can-to-may-on-lines-279-and-280/diff

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Originally submitted by dgtonge (Dave Tonge) on 2017-03-23

Fixed with this PR: https://bitbucket.org/openid/fapi/pull-requests/11/76-changed-can-to-may-on-lines-279-and-280/diff