ietf-nntp "MIGHT" in section 4.1.1

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Thu Jul 5 02:53:35 PDT 2001


Russ Allbery said:
> Section 4.1.1 has:
> 
>     If the client is not authorized to use the specified facility when the
>     server is in its current state, the response code 502 MUST be
>     returned.  A different command MIGHT change the server state and
>     permit the command if it is retried.
> 
> I think that should be either "might" in lowercase or "MAY" in uppercase,
> as MIGHT is not one of the RFC 2119 terms.  I think "MAY" is probably
> correct there.

Actually, I think "might" is correct - we're not granting permission, we're
explaining that the situation could be different if something happens.

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