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Draft Submission
The Internet Draft Submission Tool replaces the older email
submission workflow, and lets an author submit a new or updated
draft through a webpage, and have it appear in the archives
immediately.
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Templates for xml2rfc work
Elwyn Davies has produced a template as a starting point for writing
drafts using xml2rfc. You can find a copy of the
XML template at the
RFC-Editor's site, and another copy of the
XML
template at tools.ietf.org.
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Draft TXT and HTML from XML source
xml2rfc will allow you to take your XML source (using the format
defined in RFC 2629 and its unofficial successor) and generate
well-formatted text and html versions of drafts from it.
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Draft HTML and PDF from XML source
A set of XSLT transformations that can be used to transform
RFC2629-compliant XML (see RFC 2629) to
various output formats, such as HTML and PDF
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Edit IDs in .nroff with wysiwyg display
Nroff Edit is a Java application for writing and editing
Internet Draft files using the nroff format. This application lets
you load any I-D nroff file, which will be shown processed in the
right-hand window, and can be edited in the left-hand window.
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Validate XML input for XML2RFC
Performs many checks on an XML input document, verifying
both XML welformedness and many other issues specific to
document processing through xml2rfc.
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Fix document spacing.
Fix up the spacing between sentences to use two spaces.
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Check internet-drafts for submission nits
Use idnits to check that your draft has the desired formatting,
boilerplate, references consistency and more.
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Run a spelling-check on your internet-draft
Idspell uses an IETF-specific wordlist built
from the last 2 years' published RFCs, surnames
of recent I-D authors and some manually added words.
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Draft Diff Tool
When looking at updated drafts, you want a diff with
the previous draft which ignores changing page layout
and moved page headers and footers. Get it here.
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Templates for MIB Documents
The MIB Doctors have produced three templates specifically aimed at
drafts containing MIB modules:
• The first is an
XML template for editors that use XML2RFC.
Some advice echoing guidelines from RFC4181 is embedded in comments.
• A second template is a
text template for MIB documents with advice embedded in the document.
• A third template is a
plain text template with no advice included.
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more author tools ...
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IETF Database
The IETF Database holds information related to documents, authors,
positions and messages within the IETF. It currently consists of
a MySql backend and a Django frontend, and some legacy perl scripts.
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IETF Nomcom Support Tool
Pages to support the nomcom work.
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Set up or update tools server login and password
loginmgr provides scripts used to generate and verify keyed-hash
URLs in order to confirm that email addresses are reachable and
owned by the person requesting a password, and also a web frontend
and a backend to set the password in an apache digest file.
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Generate ABNF Parsers (with extensions)
Generates complete c language code for decoding/encoding messages from
an ABNF definition file with extension rules.
Examples and automated test suite are provided for a quick start.
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Bap
An ABNF parser, focusing on human-friendly error messages.
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Msglint
Check Email Headers for RFC Compliance
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more validation tools ...
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Document Statistics
Which companies are the most active contributors? How has the
situation changed over the years? Who has published most RFCs? What
percentage of drafts use ABNF or PDF? And more ...
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Update
Copy over a new version of a file only if there are changes.
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WGs marked with an 
Henrik Levkowetz
between the
WG acronym and the WG name.
