Guide for Internet Standards Writers

By Scott, G.

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Title:	Guide for Internet Standards Writers
Author:	Scott, G.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Language, Management
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Description
Technical Reference Publication

Excerpt
Introduction: This document is a guide for Internet standard writers. It offers guidelines on how to write a standards-track document with clarity, precision, and completeness. These guidelines are based on both prior successful and unsuccessful IETF specification experiences. These guidelines are to be used with RFC 2223, Instructions to RFC Authors, or its update. Note that some guidelines may not apply in certain situations. The goal is to increase the possibility that multiple implementations of a protocol will interoperate. Writing specifications to these guidelines will not guarantee interoperability. However, a recognized barrier to the creation of interoperable protocol implementations is unclear specifications.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 General Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.1 Discussion of Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.2 Protocol Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.3 Target Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.4 Level of Detail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.5 Change Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.6 Protocol Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.7 Decision History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.8 Response to Out of Specification Behavior . . . . . . . . . 6 2.9 The Liberal/Conservative Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.10 Handling of Protocol Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.11 Indicating Requirement Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.12 Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.13 IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.14 Network Management Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.15 Scalability Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.16 Network Stability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11