RE: [Syslog-sec] RE: While you are at it ...

["David B Harrington" <ietfdbh@comcast.net>]

Hi,

Sharon's suggestion had two parts:
RFCXXXX rather than RFC9999 - ok.
But also instructions to the RFC Editor in a format the RFC Editor
knows to look for:
-- RFC Ed.: replace XXXX with RFC number and remove this note

dbh

> -----Original Message-----
> From: syslog-sec-bounces@www.employees.org 
> [mailto:syslog-sec-bounces@www.employees.org] On Behalf Of 
> Rainer Gerhards
> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 8:43 AM
> To: syslog
> Subject: RE: [Syslog-sec] RE: While you are at it ...
> 
> Sharon,
> 
> thanks for the comment. I'll change it to RFC XXXX.
> 
> Rainer 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: syslog-sec-bounces@www.employees.org 
> > [mailto:syslog-sec-bounces@www.employees.org] On Behalf Of 
> > Sharon Chisholm
> > Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 1:58 PM
> > To: syslog
> > Subject: RE: [Syslog-sec] RE: While you are at it ...
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > </Rainer>
> > > 
> > > b) RFC9999 I find confusing, irritating even; normative
> > > references to I-Ds is
> > > elementary RFC-editing, they deal with it every day; put in 
> > > the I-D name and
> > > trust the editor to sort it out:-)
> > 
> > As far as I have been told, the way it currently is is the 
> > way to do it.
> > Once it is through the last call, *I* will get a last editing 
> > chance at
> > which time this is replaced by the actual RFC 1. As far as 
> > I've been told, a
> > normative RFC must only refer to other RFCs, not I-Ds. If it 
> > does, it won't
> > be normative until the other I-D has become an RFC.
> > </Rainer>
> > 
> > No, more typically one would say RFCXXXX with a note that the 
> > RFC editor
> > should fill this in when the number is available. RFC9999 
> is much less
> > likely to be caught before publication. 
> > 
> > Sharon
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