Brian Carpenter wrote: > one way of looking at this is that it relaxes the > requirements for normative downreferences in RFC 3967 That's apparently "explicitly mention it in the last call" for some time, after that the downref can be considered as known and accepted, and it doesn't need to be mentioned in further last calls. That's apparently as simple as possible. The experiment would replace the warning in the last call by a warning in the references. I probably miss the point. > there is sufficient support for this part of the experiment > that simply writing a BCP is a better approach than running > an experiment. Please keep the warning in the last call. Putting a warning also in the references is a good idea. I don't see why... | The IESG may, at its discretion, specify the exact text to be | used ...that's necessary. 3967bis could copy bullet 2 in 3.1 of the draft as is. Frank _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf