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A Lightweight Protocol for Human-Readable Documentation on the World Wide Web
This document defines a minimal, text-first presentation format for technical specifications intended for human consumption over the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP). The format preserves the typographic conventions…
About the RFC Document Series
The Request for Comments (RFC) Series is a collection of technical and organizational documents about the Internet. The Series began in 1969 and has grown to more than nine thousand documents covering every layer of the…
Typographic Conventions of the RFC Series
RFCs have a distinctive visual style: a 72-column monospace layout, running headers and footers, form-feed-delimited pages, and ASCII-art figures aligned on a character grid. This document describes these conventions…
Requirement Keywords in RFC-Style Documents
RFCs use a small vocabulary of capitalized keywords -- MUST, SHOULD, MAY, and their negations -- to indicate the strength of a requirement. This document is a short, self-contained summary of the convention, suitable as…
Anatomy of an RFC Document
This document walks through the structure of a typical RFC, section by section, so that an author can plan a new document and a reader can navigate an existing one. It covers the header, the front matter, the body, the…
About the RFC.EE Editor
RFC.EE is a small web application that lets authors compose documents in a block-based content model and render them as RFC-style documents. This document describes the application: its design goals, its architecture…