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Procedure for Standards Track Documents to Refer Normatively to External Documents
draft-kucherawy-bcp97bis-05

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From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
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Subject: Protocol Action: 'Procedures for Standards Track Documents to Refer Normatively to Documents at a Lower Level' to Best Current Practice (draft-kucherawy-bcp97bis-02.txt)

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Procedures for Standards Track Documents to Refer Normatively to
   Documents at a Lower Level'
  (draft-kucherawy-bcp97bis-02.txt) as Best Current Practice

This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF
Working Group.

The IESG contact person is Erik Kline.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kucherawy-bcp97bis/


Ballot Text

Technical Summary

   IETF procedures generally require that a standards track RFC may not
   have a normative reference to another standards track document at a
   lower maturity level or to a non standards track specification (other
   than specifications from other standards bodies).  For example, a
   standards track document may not have a normative reference to an
   informational RFC.  Exceptions to this rule are sometimes needed as
   the IETF uses informational RFCs to describe non-IETF standards or
   IETF-specific modes of use of such standards.  This document defines
   the procedure used in these circumstances.

   This document merges and updates, and thus obsoletes, RFC 3967, RFC
   4897, and RFC 8067.

Working Group Summary

   The document venues over its lifetime are noted in the shepherd
   write-up.  At each stage there was no controversy, and ultimately
   a moderate number of individual reviews and comments.

Document Quality

   This document is a -bis of an existing set of process documents with
   some cleanup and addition clarifications.

Personnel

   Document Shepherd: Erik Kline 
   Responsible Area Director: Erik Kline

RFC Editor Note