On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:44:26PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > I thought we were using RFC definitions of must and should, and thus 'may' > follows.
You're not the only one who thought that, but we're not :) Paragraph 1.1 describes them. must = have to do this, release critical bug if not should = have to do this, normal bug if not may = really optional > Must == have to do this > Should == we recommend you do this > May == we think it is a good idea, but is not always possible/sane/etc These aren't the RFC definitions though. MAY simply means it's optional, it doesn't have to be a good idea. And SHOULD is stronger than a recommendation, it means you have to do this unless there's a good reason not to. Richard Braakman
