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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