On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, JINMEI Tatuya / [ISO-2022-JP] [EMAIL PROTECTED]@C#:H wrote:
[...]
> The easiest solution to them would be to list RFC3315 as an
> informative reference.  I don't know whether this is acceptable.
> According to Section 2.7 of draft-rfc-editor-rfc2223bis-07.txt,
> Normative references specify
> 
>   - documents that must be read to understand or implement the
>     technology in the new RFC
>   - documents whose technology must be present for the technology
>     in the new RFC to work
> 
> But the first condition seems to me a bit subjective.  Under which
> requirement can we decide a document must be read for a different
> document?

I don't think this is a problem.  You don't have to understand DHCPv6 
to ignore M/O bits -- which you only act upon IF you have implemented 
DHCPv6 -- and then you understand it already :).

IMHO, putting the reference as Informative seems just fine.

-- 
Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings


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