1. <qid> RFC 2119 extension: "OUGHT TO" - a MUST that is ignored because people are lazy
2. <john-l> Yes!
3. * john-l laughs
4. <qid> as in "all XML documents OUGHT TO be well-formed"
5. …
6. <^aristotle> and the meaning of SHOULD is always a lot of fun, like in HTTP where it says that GETs SHOULD be idempotent
7. <^aristotle> and all the web monkeys read the spec and claim "well it doesn't say I have to!"
8. <^aristotle> guess we need something that it is to SHOULD as OUGHT TO is to MUST
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10. <hober> MIGHT AS WELL, perhaps

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