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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Hartman" <hartmans-ietf@mit.edu>
To: "Tom.Petch" <sisyphus@dial.pipex.com>
Cc: "ietf" <ietf@ietf.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-norm-ref (Handling Normative References
for Standards Track Documents) to BCP
>
> My strong preference as an individual is to approve this document as
> is.  I think there's a good split between RFC 3967 and this document.
> RFC 3967 will cover informational documents; this document will cover
> standards track.
>

In which case, this should be clear from the Abstract and I do not think that
that is currently the case.  I suggest replacing

"This document replaces the "hold on
   normative reference" rule will be replaced by a "note downward
   normative reference and move on" approach.  RFC 3967 is also updated
   to encourage annotations to be added when that procedure is applied."

with

"This document describes a simpler procedure for downward references to
Standards track and BCP documents, namely "note and move on".  The procedure in
RFC3967 still applies for downward references to other classes of document.  In
both cases, annotations should be added to such References."

Tom Petch

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