> The information in these two documents is very important to writing an > interoperable implementation; we've all agreed that the information in > these documents is important. If they are not in the normative section, > then they are likely to be unread (and worse, defied).
While I agree with your thoughts here, the bottom line is that these documents talk about quality-of-implementation issues. You do not *have* to reference them to implement the protocol, therefore they are by definition not normative references. --lyndon
