Pekka Savola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The document should be revised to take out all the upper-case keywords 

use of RFC 2119 keywords in documents not specifying protocols or processes
is a tightrope walk anyway, but as long as the weaker forms like SHOULD or
RECOMMENDED are used they are OK for a BCP.

>   Regional Registries and any Local Registries to whom they delegate
>    SHOULD establish and convey a policy to those to whom they delegate
>    blocks that IN-ADDR mappings are required.  Policies SHOULD require
>    those receiving delegations to provide IN-ADDR service and/or
>    delegate to downstream customers.
> 
> .. even if this would be a good practice, it's not an IETF business to 
> set these requirements or so it would seem to me.

The IETF also suggests/recommends certain network ingress filters although
that's not its core business. However, I agree that the term "required" here
again is too strong. Highly RECOMMENDing should be sufficient, not more but
also not less.

-Peter
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