At 5:15 PM +0100 4/27/09, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
>The IESG wrote:
>
>>The IESG has received a request from the smime WG (smime) to consider the 
>>following document:
>>
>>- 'Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) '
>> RFC 3852 as a Draft Standard
>>
>>No technical issues were raised during the first Last Call.  However, the
>>Last Call failed to highlight two normative references to standards track
>>documents of lower maturity:  RFCs 3280 and 3281.
>> 
>>
>Speaking as a member of the IETF community I find the question confusing, 
>considering that both documents were obsoleted (or just about to be obsoleted 
>in case of RFC 3281). Shouldn't this be RFC 5280 and 
>draft-ietf-pkix-3281update-04.txt?

Both those documents are also not yet Draft Standards, so the question of 
down-reference is still the same.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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