- From: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 15:33:34 -0800
- To: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>, IETF Applications Area general discussion list <discuss@apps.ietf.org>
>They say that IETF drafts must have 58 lines/page with form >feed between pages. I fully agree that this is the format >for published RFCs, but for IETF drafts it is very common >to have no pagination at all. To paginate a document is >quite a lot of extra trouble unless you have software which >will do it automatically. I suggest that either IETF relax >this requirement to be only valid for RFCs, not for IETF >drafts, or recommend some software which will do the >pagination for me, preferably as a Word macro. Unless they changed the rule the other day, this is not a requirement. >The document says "The Internet-Draft should neither state >nor imply that it has any standards status." Does this mean >that it is not permitted to write, in an IETF draft, >sentences like "this standard only is valid for e-mail, not >for Usenet News" or "to comply with this standard, an >implementation must ..." or phrases like that? If the >answer is yes, should I change all occurences of "standard" >with the word "specification"? That's probably what nailed you. "This standard" is inappropriate for a draft. "This document" or "this specification" is much better, since you don't know what status the draft will get (if any). >Does this mean that it is not allowed to write for >example "Category-to-be: Proposed Standard" or >"This document is intended to become a Propised Standard >if accepted by the IETF" or something like that? Personally, I would say that those are also inappropriate. A draft is a draft. >Network Working Group Name >Internet draft Affilition >file-name-00.txt Country >Expires August 1999 February 1999 > >to: > >INTERNET-DRAFT Name >Network Working Group Affilition >file-name-00.txt Country >Expires August 1999 February 1999 I also do not think they are sticky on this, but they may have changed the rules in the past two weeks. --Paul Hoffman, Director --Internet Mail Consortium
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