ietf-nntp Reference to USEFOR (was: Commetns on draft-15.pdf)

[Russ Allbery]

Charles Lindsey <chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:

> P63. References

> Currently, USEFOR is written on the assumption that the NNTP draft would
> be published first, and hence will refer to it by its RFC number.
> Likewise, the NNTP draft refers to RFC 1036, rather than to USEFOR.

> As it turns out, both documents are running late, and indeed both are
> hopefully now entering "final tidy-up". That leaves the possibility that
> they might actually come out in the wrong order. Alternatively, we
> should perhaps be considering the possibility that they will come out
> together and refer to each other, as was done with RFC 2821/2.

> Note than such a situation would come about more by luck than by
> judgement, but it would certainly make things easier in some respects. I
> do not suggest that we make strenuous efforst at this point to MAKE it
> happen that way, but we should at least bear the possibility in mind.

I'm opposed to any mention whatsoever of the USEFOR disaster in this
document.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>