RE: Last Call: 'Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)' toDraftStandard (draft-hollenbeck-epp-rfc3730bis)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Ellermann [mailto:nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 8:42 PM
> To: ietf@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: Last Call: 'Extensible Provisioning Protocol 
> (EPP)' toDraftStandard (draft-hollenbeck-epp-rfc3730bis)
> 
> Hollenbeck, Scott wrote:
> 
> > RFC 3339 (Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps)
> > Referenced by: draft-hollenbeck-epp-rfc3730bis-03,
> > draft-hollenbeck-epp-rfc3731bis-04, 
> draft-hollenbeck-epp-rfc3732bis-03,
> > draft-hollenbeck-epp-rfc3733bis-04
> > This reference is sited to capture a format that is also 
> available in
> > the W3C's XML Schema specifications.  It can be replaced with an
> > existing normative reference to the W3C specification.
> 
> That's odd, why should you be forced to replace a normative 
> reference to
> the perfectly fine RFC 3339 by some spec. published elsewhere ?  AFAIK
> nothing is wrong with RFC 3339, let's just promote it if 
> that's what it
> takes to reference it. 

There's more to it than "just promote it".

The practical point is that 3339 is only used to specify time and date
formats that are a subset of existing XML Schema formats.  XML Schema is
already a needed normative reference.  I don't really need two normative
references that specify the same thing, and I can't eliminate the Schema
reference.

-Scott-

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