Re: [tcpm] feedcback on tcp-secure-05

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Joe Touch wrote:
>> On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Joe Touch wrote:
>>> The doc continues to have a detailed but somewhat incomplete discussion
>>> of the attack scenario; the point of tcp-antispoof was to provide a much
>>> more detailed version of that discussion that should not be
>>> recapitulated but rather cited.
>>
>> You couldn't just simply cite it without any summary though, as
>> antispoof is heading Informational, and doing so would likely require a
>> down-ref.
>
> It's not a down ref to cite an informational document informationally ;-)

Sure.  But an Informative reference needs to refer to _additional_ 
information, not _replace_ information.  So, with an informative 
reference you will need to have at least short summary (a paragraph) 
of the issues.

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Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

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