Re: [spfbis] Review of draft-ietf-spfbis-experiment-05

[Barry Leiba <[e-mail]>]

> Still, in the sense that we use it
> here, references that are central to the understanding of the document
> at hand are usually considered to be normative.  DNS is arguable, but
> I'd say no.  I think the references to PRA, SENDER-ID, SPF, and
> SUBMITTER are normative.

You think that SPF or Sender ID could function without the DNS
specification???  That is, what is it you think might be arguable about
classing it as a normative reference?

[Barry]  No.  I'm saying that you need to understand SPF, etc, to
understand this doc, but you probably don't need to understand DNS to
understand this doc.  Normativity isn't transitive.

That said, because there is talk in here about the RR types, I'm happy if
we also say that DNS is a normative reference.  I'm not happy to have the
RFC 440x docs NOT be normative.

Barry