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BCP 97
RFC 4897
Title: Handling Normative References to Standards-Track
Documents
Author: J. Klensin, S. Hartman
Status: Best Current Practice
Date: June 2007
Mailbox: john-ietf@jck.com,
hartmans-ietf@mit.edu
Pages: 6
Characters: 13023
I-D Tag: draft-klensin-norm-ref-04.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4897.txt
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maturity level cannot be published until all of the documents that 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 on a way to
bypass this rule with RFC 3967. This document describes a simpler
procedure for downward references to Standards-Track and Best Current
Practice (BCP) documents, namely "note and move on". The procedure
in RFC 3967 still applies for downward references to other classes of
documents. In both cases, annotations should be added to such
References. This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices
for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements.
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