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Re: [rfc-i] Citing internet drafts

"Paul Hoffman" <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Mon, 02 September 2019 14:39 UTC

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From: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
To: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 07:39:40 -0700
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On 2 Sep 2019, at 6:46, Carsten Bormann wrote:

> On Sep 2, 2019, at 15:37, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> 
> wrote:
>>
>> 2.) Isn't this in conflict with today's Internet Draft boilerplate, 
>> wich
>> clearly says: 'It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as 
>> reference
>> material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."'. Is that
>> clause going to change as well?
>
> That boilerplate is based on the fiction that I-Ds vanish after 6 
> months.

Of course, that that is irrelevant to Julian's question. :-) The 
question is more about how can you have a boilerplate for 
Internet-Drafts that is disregarded by the body of the Internet-Drafts 
themselves.

--Paul Hoffman
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