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- Guidelines to Authors of Internet Drafts
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- The Internet-Drafts Directories are available to provide authors with
- the ability to distribute and solicit comments on documents they plan to
- submit as a Request for Comments (RFC). Submissions to the Directories
- should be sent to ``internet-drafts@cnri.reston.va.us''.
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- Internet Drafts are not an archival document series. These documents
- should not be cited or quoted from in any formal document. Unrevised
- documents placed in the Internet-Drafts Directories have a maximum life
- of six months. After that time, they must be submitted to the IESG or
- the RFC editor, or they will be deleted. After a document becomes an
- RFC, it will be replaced in the Internet-Drafts Directories with an
- announcement to that effect for an additional six months.
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- Internet Drafts are generally in the format of an RFC, although it is
- expected that the documents may be ``rough'' drafts. This format is
- specified fully in RFC 1111. In brief, an Internet Draft shall be
- submitted in ASCII text, limited to 72 characters per line and 58 lines
- per page followed by a formfeed character. Overstriking to achieve
- underlining is not acceptable.
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- Postscript is acceptable, but only when submitted with a matching ASCII
- version (even if figures must be deleted). Postscript should be
- formatted for use on 8.5x11 inch paper. If A4 paper is used, use an
- image area or less than 10 inches high should be used to avoid printing
- extra pages when printed on 8.5x11 paper.
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- There are differences between the RFC and Internet Draft format. The
- Internet Drafts are NOT RFC's and are NOT a numbered document series.
- The words ``INTERNET DRAFT'' should appear in the upper left hand corner
- of the first page. The document should NOT refer to itself as an RFC or
- a Draft RFC.
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- The Internet Draft should neither state nor imply that it is a Proposed
- Standard. To do so conflicts with the role of the IAB, the RFC Editor
- and the IESG. The title of the document should not infer a status.
- Avoid the use of the terms Standard, Proposed, Draft, Experimental,
- Historical, Required, Recommended, Elective, or Restricted in the title
- of the Internet Draft. All Internet Draft should include a section
- containing the following verbatim statement:
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- This document is an Internet Draft. Internet Drafts are
- working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force
- (IETF), its Areas, and its Working Groups. Note that other
- groups may also distribute working documents as Internet
- Drafts.
- Internet Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six
- months. Internet Drafts may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted
- by other documents at any time. It is not appropriate to use
- Internet Drafts as reference material or to cite them other
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- than as a ``working draft'' or ``work in progress.''
- Please check the 1id-abstracts.txt listing contained in the
- internet-drafts Shadow Directories on nic.ddn.mil,
- nnsc.nsf.net, nic.nordu.net, ftp.nisc.sri.com, or munnari.oz.au
- to learn the current status of any Internet Draft.
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- The document should have an abstract section, containing a two-to-three
- paragraph description suitable for referencing, archiving, and
- announcing the document. This abstract will be used in the id-abstracts
- index and in the announcement of the Draft. The abstract should follow
- the ``Status of this Memo'' section.
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- A document expiration date must appear on the first and last page of the
- Internet Draft. The expiration date is always six months following the
- submission of the document as an Internet Draft. Authors can calculate
- the six month period by adding 5 days to the date when the final version
- is completed. This should be more than enough to cover the time needed
- to send the document or notification of the document's availability to
- internet-drafts@cnri.reston.va.us.
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- If the Internet Draft is lengthy, please include on the second page, a
- table of contents to make the document easier to reference.
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