Re: [6tisch] #41 (minimal): intended status for draft minimal

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Mon, 07 December 2015 18:48 UTC

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Comments: In-reply-to Brian Haberman <brian@innovationslab.net> message dated "Mon, 07 Dec 2015 08:39:36 -0500."
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Subject: Re: [6tisch] #41 (minimal): intended status for draft minimal
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Brian Haberman <brian@innovationslab.net> wrote:
    > 2. RFC 7668 falls in the standards track, in my opinion, due to the
    > strict guidance provided in sectins 3.2.3, 3.2.4, and 3.2.5. If those
    > rules are not followed, IPv6-over-BTLE won't work. Those types of
    > statements can be advanced along the standards track (PS -> IS). The
    > "advice" in minimal is far less declarative and appears to be advisory.

    > As I said in Yokohama, I can see minimal being re-worded as a standards
    > track document, but today it reads like a BCP or Informational
    > document.

I believe that this is a bug in the text, not in the intention.
A kind of shyness :-)

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