diff --git a/inbox/raft.xml b/inbox/raft.xml
index 945d050a..c4719fbc 100644
--- a/inbox/raft.xml
+++ b/inbox/raft.xml
@@ -28,6 +28,12 @@
     <email>peter@membrey.hk</email>
     <jid>peter@membrey.hk</jid>
   </author>
+  <revision>
+    <version>0.0.3</version>
+    <date>2015-07-28</date>
+    <initials>pm</initials>
+    <remark><p>Removed references to SHOULD/MUST.</p></remark>
+  </revision>
   <revision>
     <version>0.0.2</version>
     <date>2015-07-22</date>
@@ -89,8 +95,8 @@
   <p>The author has designed Raft over XMPP with the following requirements in mind:</p>
 
   <ol>
-  	<li> The protocol MUST support all messages as defined in the <link url="https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/raft.pdf">Raft paper</link> </li>
-  	<li> It SHOULD leverage the benefits of using XMPP as the transport layer </li>
+  	<li> The protocol needs to support all messages as defined in the <link url="https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/raft.pdf">Raft paper</link> </li>
+  	<li> The protocol ought to leverage the benefits of using XMPP as the transport layer </li>
   	<li> Client to Node interaction is out of scope for this XEP</li>
   </ol>
 </section1>