IETF Tools

IETF Tools *IETF-related tools hosted on tools.ietf.org.* (Tools hosted by the secretariat are listed at http://www.ietf.org/tools).

	Prepare documents
	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.
	MIB templates for xml2rfc David B. Harrington has produced a template specifically aimed at drafts defining MIBs. There's one copy of the MIB XML template at the RFC-Editor's site and another copy of the MIB XML template at the tools.ietf.org site.
	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.
	Fix document spacing. Fix up the spacing between sentences to use two spaces.
	Check internet-drafts for submission nits Use idnits to check that your draft has the desired formatting, boilerplate, references consistency and more.
	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.
	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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	Share and communicate
	IESG Wiki IESG Guide - Everything an AD Needs to Know
	WG Chairs' Wiki WG Chairs' Guide - Everything a WG Chair Needs to Know but Was Afraid to Ask
	BOF Wiki A Wiki which lists all intended BOFs, per IETF meeting
	Manage Working Groups and Documents
	Template for Chairs' Document Writeup This is the current version of the document shepherd writeup template introduced by RFC 4858.
	Stay updated
	Get your daily dose of IETF news A summary of the progress and events of the last 24 hours in all parts of the IETF world.

	Search, show and print documents
	Internet-drafts archive. Find old and current drafts by full or partial name. If a complete draft name without version indication is used, the latest revision of the draft is provided.
	Browse and search IETF documents RFCs and drafts with hyperlink markup for easier reading and browsing, with a Google search interface.
	Download the latest documents Rsync access to various document archives: "`rsync rsync.tools.ietf.org::tools.id`" -- Unpurged IETF drafts repository. "`rsync rsync.tools.ietf.org::tools.html`" -- Currently available htmlized drafts and RFCs. "`rsync rsync.tools.ietf.org::tools.html.rfc`" -- Currently available htmlized RFCs.
	Rfcindex A script which creates a compact HTML index to the RFCs.
	Rfcmarkup Add HTML markup to a plain text draft or RFC
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	Follow an IETF meeting
	Download Agenda draft tarballs On the IETF meeting agenda provided on http://tools.ietf.org/agenda, there are links provided to tarballs of all drafts mentioned on each WG agenda. If a tarball exists, there is an archive symbol between the WG acronym and the WG name.
	Download WG drafts Download and optionally print WG drafts for a specific IETF meeting, as listed in the meeting agenda for the WG(s).
	Get support
	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.
	Statistics - Overview and Trivia
	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 ...
	Review documents
	Idcomments
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