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RFC 7994
Title: Requirements for Plain-Text RFCs
Author: H. Flanagan
Status: Informational
Stream: IAB
Date: December 2016
Mailbox: rse@rfc-editor.org
Pages: 8
Characters: 15393
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-iab-rfc-plaintext-03.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7994
DOI: 10.17487/RFC7994
In 2013, after a great deal of community discussion, the decision was
made to shift from the plain-text, ASCII-only canonical format for
RFCs to XML as the canonical format with more human-readable formats
rendered from that XML. The high-level requirements that informed
this change were defined in RFC 6949, "RFC Series Format Requirements
and Future Development". Plain text remains an important format for
many in the IETF community, and it will be one of the publication
formats rendered from the XML. This document outlines the rendering
requirements for the plain-text RFC publication format. These
requirements do not apply to plain-text RFCs published before the
format transition.
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