On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
In particular, there is a long-established tradition of specifying
cryptographic algorithms as "Informational" documents, and referring to
them from standards-track documents.
I think there needs to be separation of two different kinds of
documents,
1) informational, because the normative specification is elsewhere
(usually another standards organization) and we could reference the
normative spec directly, and just provide informative reference to the
Info spec).
2) informational document just because, well, the authors thought it
would be easiest to write an informational document. This is the
normative specification, and it may or may not have had sufficient
IETF or security review.
At least to me, these two categories should be treated differently.
It is not clear which case this one belongs.
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