Subject: Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-norm-ref (Handling Normative References for Standards Track Documents) to BCP

From: Frank Ellermann <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:26:35 +0100

Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:

> while I don't think the document necessarily needs to be changed to
> REQUIRE this, I think it would be good if last call announcements
> continued to call out normative downrefs, for two reasons:
 
> (1) To make it easier to catch potentially problematic downrefs
> (2) To encourage the advancement of frequently-referenced documents
>     along the standards track.

Yes.  For your 2nd goal maybe some of Bill's cute scripts could help
to identify "popular" standard tracks documents.

Frank

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