On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 06:16:34PM +0100, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> On Dec 20, 2019, at 17:34, Klaus Hartke <har...@projectcool.de> wrote:
> > 
> > I would prefer if draft-ietf-ace-coap-est didn't say anything here,
> > since the Uri-Host and Uri-Port options and whether they should be
> > omitted or not is entirely specified by CoAP [RFC7252].*
> 
> Klaus has an important point here.
> 
> We need to be **much more** vigilant about specifications messing with their 
> normative references.
> Saying how they are used, yes, but re-stating (or, worse, re-interpreting) 
> normative material from those references is prone to creating dialects that 
> no longer interoperate with their unadulterated originals.  Unless these are 
> hopelessly broken(*) and this is the only way to fix them, this is a MUST NOT.

Indeed; thank you Klaus and Carsten for reiterating it.

-Ben

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