Killing old/slow groups - transition thinking

[john.loughney@nokia.com]

Hi Margaret,

> I do think that other standards bodies (such as the 3GPP) include
> normative references to our informational documents in their
> standards...  I don't know whether or not this means thatthey
> are confused, though.

Normative references are OK for many documents.  I would imagine
that a normative references on Requirements is quite reasonable.
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> I am less concerned about that than I am about people who treat
> long-standing I-Ds as standards.  I often see checklists from
> customers that include I-Ds in the required features list, and
> some companies include I-Ds in the list of "standards" that their
> products support.

Agreed.

John