[IPFIX] Clarifying some wording in RFC 5101

Andrew Feren <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.ipfix
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The discussion about timestamps in "The Metering Process Reliability 
Statistics Options Template" has me rereading RFCs.

The following sentence in RFC 5101 section 9 doesn't parse.

    The Collector MUST support the use of Templates containing multiple
    occurrences of _the similar_ Information Elements.

Should this read something more like

    The Collector MUST support the use of Templates containing multiple
    occurrences of _identical_ Information Elements.

or

    The Collector MUST support the use of Templates containing multiple
    occurrences of _the same_ Information Elements.

or

    The Collector MUST support the use of Templates containing multiple
    occurrences of _similar_ Information Elements.

In the last case what does "similar" mean and why does it need a MUST or 
even to be stated at all?

Is this something we can fix in 5101bis?

-Andrew

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