Re: Working Group Decision on ISSUE-101 us-ascii-ref

On 15.03.2011 16:13, Sam Ruby wrote:
> ...
> This leaves us with two strong and rather orthogonal objections. We
> then turned to look at what the practical implications would be if each
> were adopted. Despite not being a "definition", we found no statement
> to the effect that RFC 1345 is not useful for the purpose of an
> informative reference. We did find statements that referencing a
> for-pay spec would cause less people to actually make use of the
> reference.
> ...

So do you consider the reference to be non-normative? In that case, a 
bug should be raised to mark it as such.

> === Arguments not considered:
> ...
> While it was not found to be the strongest objection, the fact that the
> IETF no longer considers this RFC to be official is a serious issue is a
> strong objection that merits consideration by the Working Group.
> ...

...meaning what?

Best regards, Julian

Received on Tuesday, 15 March 2011 15:42:14 UTC