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Compared to most specifications, RFCs are incredibly clear. While quality varies, they're remarkably approachable documents.

Of all the things to dislike, I find your dislike of SHOULD/MUST/MAY to be incredibly bizarre. The definitions of the words are intuitive, they place the definitions at the top of the document, and they use the words to eliminate all ambiguity when reading the document.

If you don't like RFCs, I'd be very curious to know what specification documents you do like.



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