Re: [core] Opsdir last call review of draft-ietf-core-hop-limit-05

"Scott O. Bradner" <sob@sobco.com> Fri, 27 September 2019 12:32 UTC

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> On Sep 27, 2019, at 8:24 AM, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
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> .  Generally, we don’t use “updates” for specifications that merely exercise an extension point, so I don’t think hop-limit “updates” RFC 7252, but the “updates” label is in active discussion already anyway.

a major advantage of listing something like this as an update is that the implementor will know about it - if there is no hint in the index entry for the old RFC that there is a related RFC it would be
very easy to overlook 

Scott