RE: [security-services] Erratum: MAY NOT->MUST NOT

["Jahan Moreh" <jmoreh@sigaba.com>]

Eve -
I definitely agree to the changes as recommended. I will however, add this
to the errata document so that we have a record of it and can formally
dispose of it during our next call.

Thanks,
Jahan

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Jahan Moreh
Chief Security Architect
310.286.3070

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eve L. Maler [mailto:eve.maler@sun.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 9:52 AM
> To: 'security-services@lists.oasis-open.org'
> Subject: Re: [security-services] Erratum: MAY NOT->MUST NOT
>
>
> Oops, forgot to mention that the line numbers referenced below are from
> the 1.0 Standard version, not the latest 1.1 draft.
>
> Eve L. Maler wrote:
> > There are two instances of the phrase "MAY NOT" in the core spec (lines
> > 1050 and 1258).  This phrase is not actually defined by RFC 2199; I
> > believe what was meant was "MUST NOT".  For this reason, and because
> > "may not" is a classic ambiguous phrase in technical documentation
> > ("don't do this", as opposed to "you may or may not do this"), I
> > recommend that we change it to "MUST NOT" in both locations.
> >
> > I did not find any other occurrences of this uppercase phrase in the
> > other documents.
> >
> >     Eve
>
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