On Fri, 24 May 2002 10:10:25 +0900, Jiwoong Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I thought the maturity level "Informational" is given by the RFC editor, at > the moment of its publishing.
The authors are allowed, and even suggested, to assign a category, to assist
the RFC editor. For instance, standards-track documents have requirements
regarding the maturity levels of normative references to other documents,
but informational documents require no checking for such things.
> Document <draft-irtf-routing-reqs-groupa- Unisphere Networks
> 00.txt> April 2002
> Category: Informational
> Requirements For a Next Generation
> Routing and Addressing Architecture
> < draft-irtf-routing-reqs-groupa-00.txt>
Informational is quite correct, as this is a list of requirements
that the architecture must meet - there are no actual protocol specifications
in this document. It says "must support X, Y, and Z", but does not say
what on-the-wire bits are used to do so, nor what methods and algorithms
are used to implement it.
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Valdis Kletnieks
Computer Systems Senior Engineer
Virginia Tech
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