At 8:15 AM -0500 2/15/02, Scott Brim wrote: >In normative text, I don't see how "must" could occur anywhere except >where it was supposed to mean "MUST".
It occurs when describing how something happened, not what needs to happen. Example from a current Internet Draft that is having the capitalization fixed: ...not less than 3, but 4 is less than 5, so 4 must be the last digit. -> ...not less than 3, but 4 is less than 5, so 4 has to be the last digit. There were a few places where the "must" turned into a "MUST" as a way of specifying how an implementation of the protocol had to work. --Paul Hoffman, Director --Internet Mail Consortium
