At 10:05 PM +0100 2/1/05, Julian Reschke wrote:
As far as I understand the IETF publication process, this means that draft-ietf-atompub-format can't be published until the protocol spec is ready as well.
Others have said we can and should remove the dependency, which is fine. Wearing my nitpicky-IETF-geek hat, I would point out that specs with dangling dependencies can be made standards without clearing the dependencies; they simply can't be published as RFCs with them. There are dozens (possibly over a hundred) IETF standards-track documents that have not yet been published as RFCs for a variety of reasons, many of them quite lame.
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