The RFC Format project is capturing the requirements for a significant revamp of the format for RFCs. Below is the suggested reading order of those requirements, as well as the links to the github repository for each document.
- The big picture
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- Flanagan, H., "RFC Format Framework", http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-rfc-framework/ https://github.com/hlflanagan/draft-iab-rfc-framework
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- The underlying vocabulary
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- Hoffman, P., "The 'XML2RFC' version 3 Vocabulary", https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-xml2rfc/ https://github.com/paulehoffman/draft-iab-xml2rfc
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- The outputs
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- Hildebrand, J. and P. Hoffman, "HyperText Markup Language Request For Comments Format”, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-html-rfc/ https://github.com/hildjj/draft-iab-html-rfc
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- Flanagan, H., "Requirements for Plain Text RFCs", https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-rfc-plaintext/ https://github.com/hlflanagan/draft-iab-rfc-plaintext
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- 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/ https://github.com/masinter/pdfrfc
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- Brownlee, N., "SVG Drawings for RFCs: SVG 1.2 RFC", https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-svg-rfc/ https://github.com/nevil-brownlee/draft-svg-rfc
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- Generalized requirements
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- Flanagan, H., "The Use of Non-ASCII Characters in RFCs", https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-iab-rfc-nonascii-00.pdf https://github.com/hlflanagan/draft-iab-rfc-nonascii
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- Flanagan, H., “CSS Requirements for RFCs”, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-rfc-css/ https://github.com/hlflanagan/draft-iab-rfc-css
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- Workflow and tools (note that the examples draft will not become an RFC, but is necessary for the project)
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- Hildebrand, J. and P. Hoffman, "RFC v3 Prep Tool Description", https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-rfcv3-preptool/ https://github.com/paulehoffman/rfcv3-preptool
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- Hoffman, P. and T. Hansen, "Examples of the ‘XML2RFC' Version 2 and 3 Vocabularies”, http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hoffman-rfcexamples/
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