Re: question on process

[Alex Zinin <zinin@psg.com>]

Here's what 2026 sais:

>    Note: Standards track specifications normally must not depend on
>    other standards track specifications which are at a lower maturity
>    level or on non standards track specifications other than referenced
>    specifications from other standards bodies.  (See Section 7.)

On the one hand, a new reader cannot understand the spec
without understanding the terminology and changes to the
terminology document should go through a stricter review
than info normally receives. On the other, pushing
terminology along the STD track seems pretty weird. BCP
seems to be a good compromise...

-- 
Alex

Wednesday, March 19, 2003, 11:21:32 AM, Thomas Narten wrote:
>> if its a normative ref than the termonology needs to be stds track
>> or BCP

> What a tangled web we weave. My immediate reaction too, though I hate
> the idea that our processes have led to the need to make all
> definitions BCPs...

> Thomas