rfc-8067

Updating When Standards Track Documents May Refer Normatively to Documents at a Lower Level

B. Leiba
date2017-01 streamIETF wgnon working group statusBEST CURRENT PRACTICE pages3 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8067 doi10.17487/RFC8067
RFC 3967 specifies a process for allowing normative references to documents at lower maturity levels ("downrefs"), which involves calling out the downref explicitly in the Last Call notice. That requirement has proven to be unnecessarily strict, and this document updates RFC 3967, allowing the IESG more flexibility in accepting downrefs in Standards Track documents.

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