IPCDN Hints for Writing Internet-Drafts

These hints are a work-in-progress.

• MIB Guidelines from the IETF Operations & Management Area Home Page
• MIB doctor guidelines (RFC 4181)
• MIB boilerplate
• MIB security considerations
• MIB review tools
• Generic and common textual conventions
• SMIv2 Errata
• General IETF Internet-Draft Guidelines
• Guidelines to authors of Internet-Drafts
• Checklist for Internet-Drafts submitted for RFC publication
• IDnits tool to check Internet-Draft editorial “nits”
• Dependency tool to check references, e.g. find downref normative references
• Instructions to RFC authors
• Current policy of the RFC Editor
• Microsoft Word Templates
• RFC 3285
• Word template
• CRLF.EXE
• NROFF Templates
• NROFF tutorial
• NROFF template
• fix.pl (this is the alternative to using “fix.sh” and “pg” in the template above)
• XML Templates
• RFC 2629
• xml2rfc and related resources
• xml2rfc validator

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