On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 11:23:32AM +0300, Valery Smyslov wrote: [...] > > - The draft currently has all its references as Normative. > I have no problems with this (except that RFC 3740 is Informational, > so should not be referenced as Normative in Standards Track and BCP > documents, > but I suggested to remove it anyway). My concern is that > referencing active drafts as Normative will lead to slow down > publication of this document until those drafts are published. > I don't think it's a major problem (we will have an incentive > to work harder on these drafts :-)), just should be noted.
I see that Paul has already agreed to move these references to Informative, but I just wanted to point out that it is possible to have a normative reference from a standards-track document to Informational/Experimental/etc. documents -- the "downreference" just needs to be called out during the IETF LC (and be subject to discussion at that time). There's even a "downref registry" (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/downref/) of documents that have been deemed to be suitable for referencing from standards-track RFCs and for which the IETF LC callout is not needed. This procedure is discussed in BCP 97. -Ben _______________________________________________ IPsec mailing list IPsec@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipsec
