----- Original Message ----- From: "Lou Berger" <lber...@labn.net> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 6:06 PM
> On 9/14/2017 12:36 PM, t.petch wrote: > > Appendices are Normative if they say that they are Normative. The > > default is that they are not so say that they are and they are. This is > > well established practice. > > Hi Tom, > My memory (I haven't checked recently) is there is nothing in or > defined process that says if an Appendix is normative or not. Other > SDOs certainly have formal definitions here. Within the IETF, my view > has been that if an appendix includes RFC2119 language, it is > normative. Actually, strictly speaking, any text in a Standards Track > RFC that doesn't include RFC2119 language is just informative. Lou Try RFC4910. ' This appendix is normative. ' and not a SHOULD or a MUST in sight. Tom Petch > Lou > _______________________________________________ netmod mailing list netmod@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod
