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  1. OASIS Open Building Information Exchange (oBIX) TC
  2. OBIX-90

mix of SHALL and MUST keywords

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    • Type: Improvement
    • Status: Closed
    • Priority: Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Affects Version/s: ENCODINGS PR02
    • Fix Version/s: ENCODINGS WD12
    • Component/s: ENCODINGS Specification
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      It is more an recommendation. Therefore changed wording to SHOULD.

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      It is more an recommendation. Therefore changed wording to SHOULD.

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      In 5.3, we see use of SHALL keyword, while all other mandatory reqs use MUST. It is better to settle for just one and here MUST, as the preferred keyword for RFC2119 . REQUIRED is still necessary in some cases because serving different grammatical context, but thats not the case of

      {MUST, SHALL}

      that are really redundant.

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              toby.considine Toby Considine (Inactive)
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