{"draft":"draft-leiba-3967upd-downref-03","doc_id":"RFC8067","title":"Updating When Standards Track Documents May Refer Normatively to Documents at a Lower Level","authors":["B. Leiba"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"3","pub_status":"BEST CURRENT PRACTICE","status":"BEST CURRENT PRACTICE","source":"IETF - NON WORKING GROUP","abstract":"RFC 3967 specifies a process for allowing normative references to\r\ndocuments at lower maturity levels (\"downrefs\"), which involves\r\ncalling out the downref explicitly in the Last Call notice.  That\r\nrequirement has proven to be unnecessarily strict, and this document\r\nupdates RFC 3967, allowing the IESG more flexibility in accepting\r\ndownrefs in Standards Track documents.","pub_date":"January 2017","keywords":["downref","maturity","last call"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":["RFC3967"],"updated_by":[],"see_also":["BCP0097"],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC8067","errata_url":null}