Re: Working Group Last Call: draft-ietf-sieve-refuse-reject-05.txt

[Aaron Stone <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 13, 2008, at 10:40 AM, Alexey Melnikov wrote:

> Ned Freed wrote:
>
> > First, a process issue: This document references RFC 2033 (LMTP)  
> > normatively. I
> > have no problem with this but I don't believe the rules allow us  
> > to have a
> > normative reference to a informational protocol specification.  
> > We're going to
> > have to ask for an exception to be made.
>
> Indeed. I was also thinking about revising LMTP spec to move it to  
> Standard Track, but it is sufficiently low on my list of IETF  
> priorities.

At the Vancouver IETF, both Lisa and Chris indicated that it would be  
straightforward to get a variance for this. (As I understand, it  
requires the IESG to sign off on the variance?)

Aaron