Jinmei - I mistyped and you guessed what I had intended to ask. Good catch and thanks for the clarification.
Can anyone supply a direct reference to an explicit statement that "a DS spec cannot have a normative reference to a PS spec."?
- Ralph
At 04:52 PM 3/4/2004 +0900, JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?= wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 02:33:23 -0500, >>>>> Ralph Droms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> In the wg meeting on Tuesday, several concerns were raised regarding >> this issue (and the proposed resolution). To summarize (some of) >> them, >> >> 1. the resolution proposes to say "the stateful protocol is DHCPv6" >> clearly, without leaving other possibilities. This would require >> RFC3315 (DHCPv6) to be listed as a normative reference. However, >> we'll then face a reference dependency issue, since rfc2462bis is >> soon expected to be recycled as a DS while RFC3315 is still a PS. >> (BTW: I could not find a direct source of this dependency issue. >> Could someone give me a pointer?)
> Do you mean that a DS spec cannot have an informative reference to a PS spec?
No, my understanding is:
- a DS spec cannot have a normative reference to a PS spec. (though I could not find a direct source of this dependency rule) - a DS spec can have an informative reference to a PS spec.
JINMEI, Tatuya Communication Platform Lab. Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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