Re: [6lo] Draft applicability for 6775bis

Brian Haberman <brian@innovationslab.net> Tue, 04 April 2017 14:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: [6lo] Draft applicability for 6775bis
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On 4/4/17 10:02 AM, Suresh Krishnan wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> 
>> On Mar 29, 2017, at 1:47 PM, Dave Thaler <dthaler@microsoft.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Any issue with a standards track document having a normative
>> reference to a BCP?
> 
> No issues that I know of. The downref rules seem to be pointing
> *from* Standards track and BCP documents *to* lower maturity level
> documents as per RFC3967. Just to be safe, I can still call this out
> in the IETF last call if the WG decides to go that way.

Right. ST and BCP are at the same level, so there are no down-ref issues
with a normative reference. Those issues arise when ST or BCP documents
normatively reference Info and Experimental documents.