Internet Draft Requirements

["Olaf M. Kolkman" <olaf@ripe.net>]

Loomis, Rip wrote:

> The subject draft, containing our initial attempt at collecting
> requirements for signed proofs of nonexistence, was submitted
> to the RFC Editor queue last week.  Since it still hasn't shown
> up in the active queue on rfc-editor.org, here are links to the
> initial version in text
I was also suprised that the draft didn't appear yet but Rip message 
triggered me to check the draft
for which he posted the (partly broken) links.

The text does not start the mandatory patent disclosure certification 
language.

Since more people were and will be bitten by forgetting this here 
follows a small reminder.

If drafts do not follow a basic set of requirements than they will be 
bounced at submission.
The requirements are listed at: http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-guidelines.txt

If you use the latest available version of XML2RFC tool for authoring 
the guidlines on the "standard"
boilerplates are automatically satisfied (http://xml.resource.org). 
Personally I recomend this tool.

It would of course be cool if all "ID-nits" from 
http://www.ietf.org/ID-Checklist.html would be sattisfied
too. But that can be done at a later stage in the process. The IDnits 
checker 
(http://ietf.levkowetz.com/tools/idnits/) is a good tool to check the 
IDnits that do not rely on human
intelligence.

Please remember this, being hit by this at cutt-off date would be a 
waste of time.

-- Olaf
(PS; Ben, Rip, I suggest you add the needed diclaimers and without any 
"content" change resubmit the draft)


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