Re: Category given by ID authors

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On Fri, 24 May 2002 10:10:25 +0900, Jiwoong Lee <porce@ktf.com>  said:
> I thought the maturity level "Informational" is given by the RFC editor, at
> the moment of its publishing.

The authors are allowed, and even suggested, to assign a category, to assist
the RFC editor.  For instance, standards-track documents have requirements
regarding the maturity levels of normative references to other documents,
but informational documents require no checking for such things.

>      Document <draft-irtf-routing-reqs-groupa-      Unisphere Networks
>      00.txt>                                                April 2002
>      Category: Informational

>                      Requirements For a Next Generation
>                      Routing and Addressing Architecture
>                   < draft-irtf-routing-reqs-groupa-00.txt>

Informational is quite correct, as this is a list of requirements
that the architecture must meet - there are no actual protocol specifications
in this document.  It says "must support X, Y, and Z", but does not say
what on-the-wire bits are used to do so, nor what methods and algorithms
are used to implement it.
-- 
				Valdis Kletnieks
				Computer Systems Senior Engineer
				Virginia Tech

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