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BCP 97
RFC 8067
Title: Updating When Standards Track Documents
May Refer Normatively to Documents at
a Lower Level
Author: B. Leiba
Status: Best Current Practice
Stream: IETF
Date: January 2017
Mailbox: [email protected]
Pages: 3
Characters: 6215
Updates: RFC 3967
See Also: BCP 97
I-D Tag: draft-leiba-3967upd-downref-03.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8067
DOI: 10.17487/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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