Paul:
Informational documents do not require an IETF Last Call. The
sponsoring AD can issue one if they think that community input id
needed, but most Informational RFCs do not have an IETF Last Call.
I choose to progress this document without an IETF Last Call.
For some stand-alone informational RFCs, not having an IETF-wide
last call is probably reasonable. However, a document like this is
going to be referenced many times in other RFCs, sometimes as a
normative reference. It would be useful to have IETF-wide last calls
on all documents that are going to be widely referenced, if for no
other reason than to alert the authors of the documents that will
reference them that they have an opportunity for open discussion.
It is not clear to me that this will become a normative
reference. The FIPS could remain the normative reference, with this
as a supporting informational one.
Russ
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