Re: [EAI] references, was Shepherd report review of mailinglist-02

["John Levine" <[e-mail]>]

I don't have strong religious beliefs about references, if we need
them we can put them in.  When I look at the IESG statement about
references, it says "It is not considered necessary to cite basic
specifications that may be safely assumed to be known to
practitioners" which I think lets us off the hook for RFC 20* for
ASCII, 5321 for bounce addresses, and 5322 for common mail message
headers.

How about if I add normative refs to 6531 for SMTPUTF8 and 6532
for non-ASCII headers, and put back 6068 for mailto:, since that's
the only URI scheme we talk about beyond a simple mention?

R's,
John


http://www.ietf.org/iesg/statement/normative-informative.html


* - for which I just filed an erratum, by the way