> To wit, I am not ignoring the process.
>
>    Once a specific down reference to a particular document has been
>    accepted by the community (e.g., has been mentioned in several Last
>    Calls), an Area Director may waive subsequent notices in the Last
>    Call of down references to it.  This should only occur when the same
>    document (and version) are being referenced and when the AD believes
>    that the document's use is an accepted part of the community's
>    understanding of the relevant technical area.  For example, the use
>    of MD5 [RFC1321] and HMAC [RFC2104] is well known among
>    cryptographers.

The problem is that as far as I can find, it hasn't been mentioned in
*any* last calls.  I'm bummed: as I said, I don't think that doing
this helps anyone, and that we should change BCP 97 forthwith.

b

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