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draft references in roadmap



At 02:54 PM 8/6/97 -0400, you wrote:
>At 11:15 AM 8/6/97 -0700, Fred L. Templin wrote:
>>
>>  1) The IP Security Document Roadmap cites RFC 1825 as the reference for
>>     the "Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol", but it refers
>>     to two new documents (draft-ietf-ipsec-auth-header-01.txt and
>>     *-esp-v2-00.txt) for the IP Authentication Header and IP Encapsulating
>>     Security Payload (ESP), respectively. Is the intention that these two
>>     new draft documents will eventually obsolete RFC's 1826 and 1827,
>>     respectively, which already describe these protocols?

Draft construction rules require that only RFC's, and NOT other drafts, be
mentioned in references.  That is why we used the device of adding
"acknowledgements" to get the draft names out there.  Some thought this
would not look terribly clear.  Now I guess you see why :-)



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