On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 7:52 AM Andrew Newton (andy) <[email protected]> wrote:

> IMO, things like NOT RECOMMENDED and SHOULD/SHOULD NOT are nearly
> worthless unless they can be qualified. That is, unless we can describe the
> conditions for going against a recommendation then there is no clear need
> to allow doing so. And that isn't just my opinion: the IESG routinely puts
> DISCUSSes on docs for this.
>

+1; see, for example, the recent IESG statement on BCP 14.

-MSK
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