On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 2:18 PM, Alia Atlas <akatlas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The existing downref process (RFC 3967) doesn't apply. That is to handle > references to > an RFC that is at a lower maturity - such as a normative reference to an > Informational or > Experimental RFC - or from an Internet Standard to a Proposed Standard. I couldn't find anything in 3967 to support that view (other than the parenthetical in the abstract). Maybe it's implicit.