Andrew, You don't need an official template. You just need one that works and passes ID nits. NroffEdit comes with an nroff template that satisfies the ID nits check. I have just updated the NroffEdit tool with a new template that incorporates the December 2009 boilerplate. Downloads are available from: http://aaa-sec.com/nroffedit/nroffedit/download.html Just the empty nroff template is available here: http://aaa-sec.com/pub/NroffEdit/empty.nroff /Stefan On 10-03-21 4:50 AM, "Masataka Ohta" <mohta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Andrew Sullivan wrote: > >> I had, in the past year, two different DNSEXT participants send me >> frustrated email because of the idnits checks. The people in question >> were both long-time contributors to the IETF with perhaps >> ideosyncratic toolchains. Neither of them was using xml2rfc, and >> neither of them had well-maintained *roff templates that just did the >> right thing. > > While I recently spent a few extra hour editing nroff source, a > solution for those who are less familiar with nroff is to provide > an official nroff template. > > Anyway, it's an issue caused by complex legal requirements and > the fundamental solution is to loosen the requirements at least > for IDs. > > With regard to the subject, introduction of non-ASCII characters > will make the matter a lot worse. > > Masataka Ohta > > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf