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