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	Title		: Handling Normative References to Standards 
                          Track Documents
	Author(s)	: S. Hartman, J. Klensin
	Filename	: draft-klensin-norm-ref-04.txt
	Pages		: 8
	Date		: 2007-3-28

The IETF and RFC Editor have a long-standing rule that a document at
   a given maturity level cannot be published until all documents it
   references as normative are at that maturity level or higher.  This
   rule has sometimes resulted in very long publication delays for
   documents and some claims that it was a major obstruction to
   advancing documents in maturity level.  The IETF agreed to a way to
   bypass this rule with RFC 3967.  This document describes a simpler
   procedure for downward references to Standards track and BCP
   documents, namely "note and move on".  The procedure in RFC 3967
   still applies for downward references to other classes of document.
   In both cases, annotations should be added to such References.

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