Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words
RFC 8174
Yes
No Objection
Note: This ballot was opened for revision 02 and is now closed.
Alvaro Retana Yes
(Alexey Melnikov; former steering group member) Yes
I might be stating the obvious, but would this require tool changes, such as idnits?
(Ben Campbell; former steering group member) Yes
(Benoît Claise; former steering group member) Yes
(Jari Arkko; former steering group member) Yes
(Kathleen Moriarty; former steering group member) Yes
(Mirja Kühlewind; former steering group member) Yes
(Spencer Dawkins; former steering group member) Yes
(Suresh Krishnan; former steering group member) Yes
(Alia Atlas; former steering group member) No Objection
(Alissa Cooper; former steering group member) No Objection
(Deborah Brungard; former steering group member) No Objection
(Joel Jaeggli; former steering group member) No Objection
(Stephen Farrell; former steering group member) No Objection
I predict that despite this well-meaning update, the IESG will in future enjoy the same process nit debates but instead of those being about upper/lower case must, they'll be about whether the boilerplate ought reference 2119 or BCP14. I'm happy I'll not be there for those:-)