After some discussion, my co-authors and I have written down a proposed policy that would clearly and specifically allow standards-track RFCs to have external non-SDO normative references. It's not disallowed now - but determining early when it is ok is unclear.
My hope is that this will facilitate improved standard technology that can use "de-facto standards" that are suitably open and mature.
Please take a read (between all the fun technical drafts) and let us know what you think.
Thanks,
Alia
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Date: Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 10:36 PM
Subject: I-D Action: draft-atlas-external-normref-00.txt
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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
Title : Normative References in RFCs from Open Source
Authors : Alia Atlas
Eliot Lear
Joel Halpern
Heather Flanagan
Jeff Tantsura
Filename : draft-atlas-external-normref-00.txt
Pages : 6
Date : 2017-10-29
Abstract:
IETF procedures generally require that a standards track RFC may not
have a normative reference to a non standards track specification
except those from other
standards bodies. This document creates an External Specification
registry, similar to the DownRef registry that has been created based
on [RFC3967] and permits normative references to community accepted
external specifications.
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https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-atlas-external-normref/
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From: <internet-drafts@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 10:36 PM
Subject: I-D Action: draft-atlas-external-normref-00.txt
To: i-d-announce@xxxxxxxx
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
Title : Normative References in RFCs from Open Source
Authors : Alia Atlas
Eliot Lear
Joel Halpern
Heather Flanagan
Jeff Tantsura
Filename : draft-atlas-external-normref-
Pages : 6
Date : 2017-10-29
Abstract:
IETF procedures generally require that a standards track RFC may not
have a normative reference to a non standards track specification
except those from other
standards bodies. This document creates an External Specification
registry, similar to the DownRef registry that has been created based
on [RFC3967] and permits normative references to community accepted
external specifications.
The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/
There are also htmlized versions available at:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/
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