On May 10, 2017, at 8:52 AM, John Cowan <> wrote:
On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 7:23 AM, Andrew S. Townley <> wrote:
>> You’re right. The specification doesn’t say anything about
>> retrieval other than if the relative and base URI resolve to the
>> same base URI, then dereferencing “should not” result in a new
>> retrieval action.
> Note that that "should not" is in lower case: it is not an RFC 2119
> requirement.
Sigh.
Is there something in RFC 2119 that says the keywords must be
uppercased? I didn’t find it. It’s common practice, but if it’s
required, where is the requirement stated?
In RFC 3986, I see no uppercased words; I don’t believe that that
shows it to have no normative content.
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