RE: [dita] MUST, SHOULD, and MAY, some key words from RFC 2119

["Grosso, Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com>]

If I'm not misunderstanding what you're saying, Michael, that is the most unusual definition of "standard" I have ever seen in my quarter century of working on standards.

 

Then what does it mean to be MUST in the core DITA standard?

 

More to the point, what is the core DITA standard standardizing?

 

paul

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From: Michael Priestley [mailto:mpriestl@ca.ibm.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 2007 October 02 13:15
To: Ogden, Jeff
Cc: dita@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [dita] MUST, SHOULD, and MAY, some key words from RFC 2119

Looks good, Jeff - with the caveat though that even though the core is MUST and the specializations are RECOMMENDED or OPTIONAL, a specialization may introduce behavior that overrides the core.

In other words, all behavior, core and specialized, is overrideable.