[rfc-dist] BCP0097 RFC 4897 on Handling Normative References to Standards-Track Documents

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        BCP 97        
        RFC 4897

        Title:      Handling Normative References to Standards-Track 
                    Documents 
        Author:     J. Klensin, S. Hartman
        Status:     Best Current Practice
        Date:       June 2007
        Mailbox:    john-ietf at jck.com, 
                    hartmans-ietf at mit.edu
        Pages:      6
        Characters: 13023
        

        I-D Tag:    draft-klensin-norm-ref-04.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4897.txt

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advancing documents in maturity level.  The IETF agreed on a way to
bypass this rule with RFC 3967.  This document describes a simpler
procedure for downward references to Standards-Track and Best Current
Practice (BCP) documents, namely "note and move on".  The procedure
in RFC 3967 still applies for downward references to other classes of
documents.  In both cases, annotations should be added to such
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