Subject: Re: [EAI] Repeating normative text from other specifications

From: Shawn Steele <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:39:51 +0000

> This issue is worth exploring specifically, since it is a touchstone to very 
> different approaches in specification style.  It is an issue that occurs 
> frequently in discussions about specification writing.  In my experience, 
> repeating normative text is a mistake, and sometimes a very bad one.

I would also rather only list the differences, and not repeat stuff.  That lends to getting out-of-sync.  Also it might make reviewing simpler since if it wasn't there we couldn't mess it up :)  Also we wouldn't have to worry about other extensions that may impact the original RFC, or updates to that RFC.

-Shawn