Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-norm-ref (Handling Normative References for Standards Track Documents) to BCP

Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de> Thu, 01 March 2007 17:27 UTC

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Subject: Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-norm-ref (Handling Normative References for Standards Track Documents) to BCP
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Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:

> while I don't think the document necessarily needs to be changed to
> REQUIRE this, I think it would be good if last call announcements
> continued to call out normative downrefs, for two reasons:
 
> (1) To make it easier to catch potentially problematic downrefs
> (2) To encourage the advancement of frequently-referenced documents
>     along the standards track.

Yes.  For your 2nd goal maybe some of Bill's cute scripts could help
to identify "popular" standard tracks documents.

Frank



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