At 5:15 PM +0100 4/27/09, Alexey Melnikov wrote: >The IESG wrote: > >>The IESG has received a request from the smime WG (smime) to consider the following document: >> >>- 'Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) ' >> RFC 3852 as a Draft Standard >> >>No technical issues were raised during the first Last Call. However, the >>Last Call failed to highlight two normative references to standards track >>documents of lower maturity: RFCs 3280 and 3281. >> >> >Speaking as a member of the IETF community I find the question confusing, considering that both documents were obsoleted (or just about to be obsoleted in case of RFC 3281). Shouldn't this be RFC 5280 and draft-ietf-pkix-3281update-04.txt? Both those documents are also not yet Draft Standards, so the question of down-reference is still the same. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf