RE: iscsi: editorial comments to iSCSI-05

[julian_satran@il.ibm.com]

correct - Julo

Black_David@emc.com on 09/03/2001 22:34:19

Please respond to Black_David@emc.com

To:   matt_wakeley@agilent.com, ips@ece.cmu.edu
cc:
Subject:  RE: iscsi: editorial comments to iSCSI-05




> Global:  "MUST", "SHOULD", etc are sometimes all upper case,
>     sometimes lowercase.  Please make them consistent.

Actually, that's deliberate.  Upper case versions of these
and other terms express requirements, recommendations, and
options for interoperability and the like and are defined
in RFC 2119 (see statement on p.3 of the iSCSI draft).  Lower
case versions of these terms may be used, but do not have
the RFC 2119 meanings and implications of the upper case terms.
The decision to use upper case vs. lower case is a deliberate
decision about whether this is an interoperability issue or
one of similar import/impact - in particular RFC 2119 advises
that these upper case terms "be used with care and sparingly".

--David

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