This is an announcement of an IETF-wide Call for Comment on the RFC Format Drafts. These documents are being considered for publication as Informational RFCs within the IAB stream. The suggested reading order is: 1. The big picture - - - Flanagan, H., "RFC Format Framework", http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-rfc-framework/ 2. The underlying vocabulary - - - Hoffman, P., "The 'XML2RFC' version 3 Vocabulary", https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-xml2rfc/ 3. The outputs - - - Hildebrand, J. and P. Hoffman, "HyperText Markup Language Request For Comments Format”, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-html-rfc/ - - - Flanagan, H., "Requirements for Plain Text RFCs", https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-rfc-plaintext/ - - - Hansen, T., Masinter, L., and M. Hardy, "PDF for an RFC Series Output Document Format”, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-rfc-use-of-pdf/ - - - Brownlee, N., "SVG Drawings for RFCs: SVG 1.2 RFC", https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-svg-rfc/ 4. Generalized requirements - - - Flanagan, H., "The Use of Non-ASCII Characters in RFCs", https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-iab-rfc-nonascii-00.pdf - - - Flanagan, H., “CSS Requirements for RFCs”, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-rfc-css/ 5. Workflow and tools (note that the examples draft will not become an RFC, but is necessary for the project) - - - Hildebrand, J. and P. Hoffman, "RFC v3 Prep Tool Description", https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-rfcv3-preptool/ - - - Hoffman, P. and T. Hansen, "Examples of the ‘XML2RFC' Version 2 and 3 Vocabularies”, http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hoffman-rfcexamples/ 6. The Statements of Work - - - http://www.nostrum.com/~rjsparks/rfced/ The Call for Comment will last until 2016-03-10. Please send comments to iab@iab.org. For comments on individual drafts, please include the relevant document filename in the subject line.
