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[David Booz <booz@us.ibm.com>]

Sanjay, Check the minutes of the Policy TC from Oct 1, I'll paste it here: Sanjay: Open CSA Steering Committee's recommendation regarding use of RFC 2119 keywords (and versioning): http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/sca- policy/200710/msg00000.html Sanjay: The Steering Committee (SC) recommends to each SCA Technical Committee to use the RFC 2119 keywords along with the following restrictions in their specifications: a) All RFC 2119 keywords will be of the uppercase form (for example, RFC 2119 keywords MUST be capitalized) b) Use of lower-case 2119 keywords will not be used in the spec. When the use of 2119 keyword is needed, without having the implications wrt conformance, a suitable synonym will be found. c) RFC 2119 defines keywords that are synonyms of each other. For example 'SHALL' and 'MUST' mean the same thing. The TC should not use multiple forms to mean the same. Therefore the TC should use 'MUST' instead of 'SHALL' and 'MUST NOT' instead of 'SHALL NOT' through out the spec. Sanjay: Moves to accept the resolution as proposed by the SC Martin Chapman: seconds Resolution 3: Use RFC 2119 keywords as recommended by the Open CSA SC, accepted unanimously So yes, we accepted RFC2119 + some stuff. I think the other TCs did someting similar. Dave Booz STSM, SCA and WebSphere Architecture Co-Chair OASIS SCA-Policy TC "Distributed objects first, then world hunger" Poughkeepsie, NY (845)-435-6093 or 8-295-6093 e-mail:booz@us.ibm.com http://washome.austin.ibm.com/xwiki/bin/view/SCA2Team/WebHome "Patil, Sanjay"