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authorsietf.org
new resource site for
authors of Internet-Drafts
Jay Daley
IETF Executive Director
9 Mar 2022
The new central resource site for authors of Internet-Drafts (I-Ds);
authorsietforg; is now in production:
In late 2o20/early 2021
we
surveyed Internet-Draft (I-D) authors and
theme
to emerge was that documentation and resources for authors were hard to use as
they were distributed across multiple sites and often inconsistent or out of date:
To address this;
a new central resource site; authors ietforg; has been developed
that pulls together and updates the existing documentation as well as adding new
documentation to fill known gaps:
authors_ietforg has been produced with significant input from the developers of [-
D authoring tools, the Tools Team and the RFC Production Center (RPC)
includes a new set of RFCXML templates for |-D authors that the RPC recommend
are used going forward
they address many of the common issues they
encounter_
Work is still underway to remove andlor redirect overlapping documentation on
other sites:
Initially, the site will be maintained as required by the Tools team; the IETF
Administration LLC, and the RPC, but it is hoped that more and more of the site
will be edited and updated by the community:
To that end, all of the pages are
mirrored to a GitHub repository and we welcome people adding issues and
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