Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words
RFC 8174 part of BCP 14

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Date By Action
2023-12-12
 (System) Imported membership of rfc8174 in bcp14 via sync to the rfc-index
2023-12-12
 (System) No history of BCP14 is currently available in the datatracker before this point
2019-07-11
 Robert Sparks Undoing an incorrect shepherd assignment
2019-07-11
 Robert Sparks Notification list changed to Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com>
2019-07-11
 Robert Sparks Document shepherd changed to Robert Sparks
2017-05-19
 (System) Received changes through RFC Editor sync (added Errata tag)
2017-05-19
 (System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (changed title to 'Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words', changed abstract to 'RFC 2119 specifies …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (changed title to 'Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words', changed abstract to 'RFC 2119 specifies common key words that may be used in protocol specifications.  This document aims to reduce the ambiguity by clarifying that only UPPERCASE usage of the key words have the defined special meanings.')
2017-05-18
 (System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8174, changed title to 'RFC 2119 Key Words: Clarifying the Use of Capitalization', changed abstract …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8174, changed title to 'RFC 2119 Key Words: Clarifying the Use of Capitalization', changed abstract to 'RFC 2119 specifies common key words that may be used in protocol specifications.  This document aims to reduce ambiguity by clarifying that only UPPERCASE usage of the key words have the defined special meanings.', changed standardization level to Best Current Practice, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2017-05-18, changed IESG state to RFC Published, created updates relation between draft-leiba-rfc2119-update and RFC 2119)
2017-05-18
 (System) RFC published