[e2e] Are we doing sliding window in the Internet?

[Joe Touch]

Lloyd Wood wrote:
> At Wednesday 03/01/2007 16:36 -0800, Joe Touch wrote:
...
>> It should be insufficient to get those words into an RFC without
>> evidence that they are appropriate. RFCs are neither the sole nor
>> necessarily the appropriate place for that information; they can and
>> should cite published work that validates their claims. 
> 
> Such citations would be informational rather than normative, and therefore optional.

Although there is a distinction between required citations of protocols
(normative) and other references, I don't agree that it's appropriate to
consider all informative references optional. They're informative only
in the sense that they don't cite protocol standards; they're required
if they are needed to understand motivation.

> Informational references tend to get left out of RFCs.

I hope we all avoid making that mistake, or allowing others to do so.

Joe

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Joe Touch
Sr. Network Engineer, USAF TSAT Space Segment

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