{"draft":"draft-iab-rfc-plaintext-03","doc_id":"RFC7994","title":"Requirements for Plain-Text RFCs","authors":["H. Flanagan"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"8","pub_status":"INFORMATIONAL","status":"INFORMATIONAL","source":"IAB","abstract":"In 2013, after a great deal of community discussion, the decision was\r\nmade to shift from the plain-text, ASCII-only canonical format for\r\nRFCs to XML as the canonical format with more human-readable formats\r\nrendered from that XML.  The high-level requirements that informed\r\nthis change were defined in RFC 6949, \"RFC Series Format Requirements                 \r\nand Future Development\".  Plain text remains an important format for\r\nmany in the IETF community, and it will be one of the publication\r\nformats rendered from the XML.  This document outlines the rendering\r\nrequirements for the plain-text RFC publication format.  These\r\nrequirements do not apply to plain-text RFCs published before the\r\nformat transition.","pub_date":"December 2016","keywords":["RFC","ASCII","format","plain-text","plain text","xml2rfcv3","v3"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":["RFC9920"],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC7994","errata_url":null}