Under the term of RFC 3967, the IESG may approve a normative reference to a document at a lower level, after an appropriate Last Call. RFC 1951 is referenced by two documents recently put to Last Call: draft-ietf-lemonade-compress and draft-ietf-crisp-iris-lwz . As is common with algorithm documents, RFC 1951 is Informational, where both drafts are targeted for the standards track. RFC 1951 has already been similarly used by other documents, including RFC 2616 (HTTP), RFC 3724 (CMS Compressed mode), and RFC 4253 (Secure Shell Transport Layer), but the IESG has no record of the downref being called out in those last calls. The IESG intends to make a decision on whether to permit these downrefs at the next IESG telechat, and it would appreciate input by Feb 8, 2007. Further input on whether RFC 1951 should be considered among those documents for which Last Call references are no longer required (as noted in Section 3 of RFC 3967) would also be welcome. Comments should be sent to ietf@ietf.org. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
