I understand the scope of application of shall. However, such application and use is totally inconsistent with the " conditional structure of the phrase" as well as within the context that to be used Tks again I am not convinced at all Kavouss Sent from my iPhone
On 28 Feb 2016, at 23:28, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 08:14:41PM +0000, Phil Corwin wrote: "'Shall' is very commonly used in legislation in the third person to imply mandatoriness."
Agreed.
Also, in an Internet context, these words for some have special meaning. Roughly standards-track RFC for many years now has included this text:
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
So this may be one occasion in which people of policy and technical backgrounds won't confuse each other :)
For those interested, <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2119>.
Best regards,
A
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