RE: Normative/Informative References

["Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>]

> we have gone around on this
> 
> I think its polite to tell readers, even of info docs, what else
> then need to read to actually understand a doc 
> 
I agree with that, and I keep telling people who ask me that they
would do wise to try and evaluate that and then make the split
accordingly. Although I can live with it if they don't get it
100% right.

> but other folk (including Braden) do not see the logic in
> a normative reference in an informative document
> 
I thought it was more: we don't check it in detail.

Bert
> Scott
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> advice?
> 
> From: Randy Bush <randy@iij.com>
> Subject: Re: Normative/Informative References
> Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 08:51:12 -0800
> 
> > ID-nits question:  Do we need to do the Normative/Informative
> > reference split for informational documents?  Or only for
> > standards track?  What about BCP?
> 
> bcp for sure.  i am not positive about info, but would think so.
> normative means you need to have the reference to understand the
> document at hand.  it would seem to me that applies to *any* of
> the document classifications as both referees and referants.
> 
> i will check.
> 
> randy
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