Re: References style in draft-lafon-rfc2616bis

* Julian Reschke wrote:
>All of this could be avoided by switching to symbolic references, such as
>
>     RFC2396 [RFC2396]
>
>or even just
>
>     [RFC2396]
>
>instead of
>
>     RFC2396 [12]

The RFC Editor prefers http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcfaq.html#refs the
former forms, numeric references should be avoided, so yes, please do.
It is good practise to use the first form for the first occurence of
the reference, and the second form for subsequent references.
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Received on Sunday, 12 November 2006 15:49:32 UTC