Re: [rfc-i] Lamenting clusters...

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Fri, 20 May 2022 16:22 UTC

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> I think Informative references are normally to drafts

hmmm.  my, likely bad, habits are
  - no normative to drafts except when expecting a cluster, then
  - normative to things you MUST know to understand/implement
  - informative to things you might find interesting/helpful

i suspect that a wise head, such as sob, has written this up some time.

rndy

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