Re: [xrblock] downref in draft-ietf-xrblock-rtcp-xr-decodability-06.txt

Good catch, I agree with your point.
I think it is more straightforward to change RFC6709 as Informationtive.

Regards!
-Qin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Romascanu, Dan (Dan)" <dromasca@avaya.com>
To: <xrblock@ietf.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 10:06 PM
Subject: [xrblock] downref in draft-ietf-xrblock-rtcp-xr-decodability-06.txt

> Editors of draft-ietf-xrblock-rtcp-xr-decodability-06.txt,
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> While preparing the write-up draft-ietf-xrblock-rtcp-xr-decodability-06.txt for submission to the IESG I ran in a similar downref problem as with the summary statistics I-D, probably introduced in the last rounds of edits. [RFC6709] is now referred to as a Normative Reference, which results in a downref, as 6709 is an Informational RFC. Can you also look at this issue? 
> 
> Note that downrefs are OK, but we must be sure that this is what we want to do, and call these explicitly in the write-ups, which will lead to being called explicitly in the IETF Last Calls. 
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> My take as a contributor is that RFC 6709 provides a generic guidance and as such the reference to it may be Informative, but other people may have different opinions. 
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> Thanks and Regards,
> 
> Dan
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