IETF RFC 7994
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Requirements for Plain-Text RFCs
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- Publisher
- IETF
- Doc Type
- Informational
- Pages
- 8
- Abstract
- 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.
- Publication Date
- 2016-12-01
- Status Note
- Informational
- DOI
10.17487/RFC7994- Link
- https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7994
- Author(s)
- Heather Flanagan
- Keyword(s)
- RFC, ASCII, Plain Text, xml2rfc
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Normative Reference(s)
- IETF RFC 3629 [Active*]
- IETF RFC 6949 [Active*]
- IETF RFC 7322 [Active*]
- IETF RFC 7749 [Superseded*]
- IETF RFC 7841 [Active*]
- IETF RFC 7991 [Active*]
- IETF RFC 7997 [Active*]
Bibliographic Reference(s)
- Flanagan, H., "Subject: Direction of the RFC Format Development effort", May 2013, < http://www.rfc-editor.org/pipermail/ rfc-interest/2013-May/005584.html >. EXTERNAL
- The Unicode Consortium, "Glossary of Unicode Terms", September 2016, < http://www.unicode.org/glossary/ >. EXTERNAL
- Wikipedia, "Widows and orphans", September 2016, < https://en.wikipedia.org/w/ index.php?title=Widows_and_orphans&oldid=738356204 >. EXTERNAL
- RFC Editor, "Web Portion of the Style Guide", February 2016, < http://www.rfc-editor.org/styleguide/part2/ >. EXTERNAL
- RFC Editor, "Instructions to Request for Comments (RFC) Authors", August 2004, < https://www.rfc-editor.org/ materials/instructions2authors.txt >. EXTERNAL
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Referenced By
- IETF RFC 9920 [Active*]