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Title : Handling Normative References to Standards
Track Documents
Author(s) : S. Hartman, J. Klensin
Filename : draft-klensin-norm-ref-04.txt
Pages : 8
Date : 2007-3-28
The IETF and RFC Editor have a long-standing rule that a document at
a given maturity level cannot be published until all documents it
references as normative are at that maturity level or higher. This
rule has sometimes resulted in very long publication delays for
documents and some claims that it was a major obstruction to
advancing documents in maturity level. The IETF agreed to a way to
bypass this rule with RFC 3967. This document describes a simpler
procedure for downward references to Standards track and BCP
documents, namely "note and move on". The procedure in RFC 3967
still applies for downward references to other classes of document.
In both cases, annotations should be added to such References.
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