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Updating When Standards Track Documents May Refer Normatively to Documents at a Lower Level
RFC 8067 part of BCP 97

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Date By Action
2023-12-12
(System) Imported membership of rfc8067 in bcp97 via sync to the rfc-index
2023-12-12
(System) No history of BCP97 is currently available in the datatracker before this point
2017-01-24
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8067, changed title to 'Updating When Standards Track Documents May Refer Normatively to Documents at …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8067, changed title to 'Updating When Standards Track Documents May Refer Normatively to Documents at a Lower Level', changed abstract to 'RFC 3967 specifies a process for allowing normative references to documents at lower maturity levels ("downrefs"), which involves calling out the downref explicitly in the Last Call notice.  That requirement has proven to be unnecessarily strict, and this document updates RFC 3967, allowing the IESG more flexibility in accepting downrefs in Standards Track documents.', changed standardization level to Best Current Practice, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2017-01-24, changed IESG state to RFC Published, created updates relation between draft-leiba-3967upd-downref and RFC 3967)
2017-01-24
(System) RFC published