Re: [dhcwg] AD review of draft-ietf-dhc-unused-optioncodes-03.txt

[Thomas Narten <[e-mail]>]

> "normative references are also published" as an RFC?

FYI, from http://www.rfc-editor.org/policy.html 

> References Section
> 
> Nearly all RFCs contain citations to other documents, and these are
> listed in a References section near the end of the RFC. There are many
> styles for references, and the RFCs have one of their own. Please
> follow the reference style used in recent RFCs. For protocols that
> have been assigned STD numbers, the STD number must be included in the
> reference.
> 
> Within an RFC, references to other documents fall into two general
> categories: "normative" and "informative". Normative references
> specify documents that must be read to understand or implement the
> technology in the new RFC, or whose technology must be present for the
> technology in the new RFC to work. An informative reference is not
> normative; rather, it only provides additional information. For
> example, an informative reference might provide background or
> historical information. Informative references are not required to
> implement the technology in the RFC.
> 
> The distinction between normative and informative references is often
> important. The IETF standards process and the RFC Editor publication
> process both need to know whether a reference to a work in progress is
> normative. An RFC cannot be published until all of the documents that
> it lists as normative references have been published. In practice,
> this often results in the simultaneous publication of a group of
> inter- related RFCs.
> 
> For these reasons, the IESG and the RFC Editor are preparing new
> guidelines that will request separate reference lists for normative
> and informative references in RFCs. For example, of both types are
> present, there might be two reference sections, numbered s and s+1,
> for example:
> 
>                s. Normative References
> 
>                    xxx
>                     ...
>                    xxx
> 
>               s+1. Informative References
> 
>                    xxx
>                     ...
>                    xxx
> 
> 
> 

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