On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 19:14, John C Klensin wrote: > Even if one believes that it is desirable, 3967 already weakens > traditional norms for documents on the IETF standards track. A > suggestion that further weakening is needed definitely calls for > some discussion, at least IMO. There is considerable historic variation between areas on this supposed "norm"; I don't think it's appropriate to characterize 3967 as uniformly "weakening" (or "strengthening") any norms. In particular, there is a long-established tradition of specifying cryptographic algorithms as "Informational" documents, and referring to them from standards-track documents. - Bill _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf