On 10/09/2015 04:33 AM, l.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> RFC 2152 may be informational, but it is normatively referenced >> from a standards-track document. > (which one?) > > well, that makes a mockery of the whole informational/standards-track distinction. If you believe that, a careful study of RFC 3967 and the page at https://trac.tools.ietf.org/group/iesg/trac/wiki/DownrefRegistry might leave you mighty unhappy. The only unusual (well, slightly unusual) thing about this downref is that we haven't gotten it into the list yet.