Key Words for Use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels¶
Bradner, S. (1997). Key Words for Use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels.
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3 citations across 3 artifacts.
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Primes¶
- Rhetorical Velocity
- Open-source software and documentation: code composed knowing it will be forked and recombined; documentation written knowing fragments will be pasted into answers, posts, and training corpora; API contracts designed for re-export and embedding. Legal and contractual drafting: clauses drafted knowing they will be lifted into other documents and cited decades later, with defined-terms conventions and severability clauses as partial mitigations. Media and public relations: messaging that pre-constructs the sound-bites and visuals that will be excerpted and writes headlines for downstream re-use. Standards and protocols: specifications written knowing implementers read selectively, with conformance levels ("MUST"/"SHOULD"/"MAY") existing to shape behaviour under imperfect reading.
This sourceDefines MUST/SHOULD/MAY conformance levels that shape implementer behavior under selective reading of specifications.
- Open-source software and documentation: code composed knowing it will be forked and recombined; documentation written knowing fragments will be pasted into answers, posts, and training corpora; API contracts designed for re-export and embedding. Legal and contractual drafting: clauses drafted knowing they will be lifted into other documents and cited decades later, with defined-terms conventions and severability clauses as partial mitigations. Media and public relations: messaging that pre-constructs the sound-bites and visuals that will be excerpted and writes headlines for downstream re-use. Standards and protocols: specifications written knowing implementers read selectively, with conformance levels ("MUST"/"SHOULD"/"MAY") existing to shape behaviour under imperfect reading.
Mechanisms¶
- Modal Language Review Protocol
- Technical Standard Specification
- Disciplined use of normative keywords is what turns intentions into checkable obligations.
This sourceDefines normative keywords as explicit requirement, prohibition, and qualified-recommendation levels for specifications.
- Disciplined use of normative keywords is what turns intentions into checkable obligations.
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