ietf-nntp "MIGHT" in section 4.1.1
Russ Allbery
rra at stanford.edu
Sun Jul 8 02:51:59 PDT 2001
Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:
> 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.
After giving it some more thought, I believe you're correct. Okay, I
propose changing MIGHT to might.
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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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