Rephrase non-normative uses of RFC2119 keywords
tabatkins opened this issue · comments
Currently, on lines 2607 and 2715, the spec is using "may" in a note. To silence the Bikeshed warning complaining about this, it slaps a <span class=allow-2119> element around the sentence.
However, Bikeshed was correct to complain about this - using a normative 2119 keyword in a non-normative section is confusing at best and misleading at worst. The allow-2119 class is meant for false positives, like mentioning the month of May or quoting previous text that used the keyword, not for deliberately using the keyword in a confusable fashion.
I suggest both of these instances be changed to "can" or "might", and the <span> be removed.
Good point.