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Modal verbs: Follow ISO/IEC rather than RFC #27

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GoogleCodeExporter opened this issue Mar 24, 2015 · 1 comment

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GoogleCodeExporter commented Mar 24, 2015

ISO and IEC use modal verbs (such as "shall" and "should") differently 
from IETF.

Since the IDPF board is favor of standardization at ISO and/or IEC, 
I think that we should follow ISO and IEC rather than IETF.

See Annex H (normative) Verbal forms for the expression of provisions

http://www.iec.ch/tiss/iec/Directives-Part2-Ed5.pdf

Original issue reported on code.google.com by eb2m...@gmail.com on 27 Oct 2010 at 9:51

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GoogleCodeExporter commented Mar 24, 2015

We will not change modal verbs at this point. In the event of a future ISO 
standardization process, there are clearly many other changes that would need 
to be done to the documents. We prefer to do all such changes at once.

Original comment by markus.g...@gmail.com on 8 Apr 2011 at 12:38

Changed state: Deferred

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