Shepherd writeup - Question 18 on normative references and advancement

Lucas Pardue <lucaspardue.24.7@gmail.com> Sun, 22 May 2022 15:27 UTC

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Subject: Shepherd writeup - Question 18 on normative references and advancement
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Hello WG chairs,

Reviewing again the updated shepherd writeup template[1], I'm left with an
ambiguous understanding of what Question 18 is trying to convey.

> 18. Are there normative references to documents that are not ready for
advancement or are otherwise in an unclear state? If they exist, what is
the plan for their completion?

What does advancement mean here? For instance, if the document being
shepherded has a normative reference to a document that is in the RFC
editor queue, is that "not ready for advancement"? What if there was a
reference to a document in AUTH48, where all authors had approved it?

Taking a different perspective, if the shepherded doc has a normative
reference to a non-IETF doc, what does "advancement" mean there?

Cheers,
Lucas

[1] - https://chairs.ietf.org/documents/qa-style-writeup-template