On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 07:55:28PM -0500, David Vernet wrote: > > You make an excellent point. Although v2 does not make this change, do > > you think that a reasonable adjustment would be to simply move this > > section to the end of the document? > > My initial expectation is that it's not a great idea to reference > external documents that could change, no longer be valid links, etc, but > I'd like to hear what others think. Dave -- is this typical for an IETF > informational document? It seems like if we did this we'd basically be > taking implicit dependencies on documents we can't actually control > (because they're not IETF), but I have no idea if this is normal or not. IETF prefers IETF references, and if not stable standards-like documents. Even those will get careful review (talking as someone with a draft that has normative SCSI and NVMe references right now). For non-normative references this is a bit relaxed, but a random url that can change is never acceptable.
