ietf-nntp Normative references

[Charles Lindsey]

In <ylllzemrpz.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>As I understand it, if we want to release this on the standards track, our
>document can't have normative references to informational documents like
>RFC 1036.  That would mean it's not kosher to defer syntax definitions to
>RFC 1036.  This has effects in various different places, including in the
>definition of message-ids and in the specification for POST.

I think for RFCs from the days before the present standard-track
mechanisms were defined, you have to allow for some exceptions to the
current rules.

However, if there is some small matter in RFC 1036 (a bit of syntax
perhaps) which you need for normative purposes, than you can just repeat
it verbatim in the new document. I doubt there will be many cases.

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