On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 7:42 PM John C Klensin <john-ietf@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> What did you mean by "in which document's categories the
> reference falls"?
In essence, the descriptions in your sections 4.2, 5, and 6
create categories of downrefs. I'd be inclined to divide 6 into
two subcategories, one for what we have called "recognized
standards bodies" in other contexts and one for other types of
external references. Either way, I think that categorization
could be very helpful going forward and I was suggesting that it
should be included in the registry.
Do we have a good definition of "recognized standards bodies" anywhere? This has come up recently in other contexts (e.g., RFC 6838) recently and I'm wondering if there's an actual definition somewhere that I don't know about. In particular, what defines "recognized"?
-MSK
