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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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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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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.
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Download WG drafts
Download and optionally print WG drafts for a specific IETF
meeting, as listed in the meeting agenda for the WG(s).
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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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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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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.
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Browse and search IETF documents
RFCs and drafts with hyperlink markup for easier
reading and browsing, with a Google search
interface.
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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.
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Download the latest documents
Rsync access to various document archives:
• Unpurged IETF drafts repository:
To list, do:
"rsync rsync.tools.ietf.org::tools.id"
To sync, do:
"rsync -avz rsync.tools.ietf.org::tools.id ./id"
• Currently available htmlized drafts and RFCs:
To list, do:
"rsync rsync.tools.ietf.org::tools.html"
To sync, do:
"rsync -avz rsync.tools.ietf.org::tools.html ./html"
• For a full list of the various rsync sources at tools.ietf.org, do
"rsync rsync.tools.ietf.org::"
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Extract ABNF from a document
Shows the ABNF contained in a draft or RFC, as extracted by 'aex'
from Bill Fenner's 'bap' toolsuite
(http://bap.googlecode.com/)
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Rfcindex
A script which creates a compact HTML index to the RFCs.
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Rfcmarkup
Add HTML markup to a plain text draft or RFC
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more display tools ...
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BOF Wiki
A Wiki which lists all intended BOFs, per IETF meeting
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WG Chairs' Wiki
WG Chairs' Guide - Everything a WG Chair Needs to Know but Was Afraid to Ask
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Email aliases to draft authors and chairs
tools.ietf.org provides email aliases to WG chairs
and draft authors, to make it easier to reach them
without having the individual addresses available.
To reach the authors of a draft, send an email to:
<DRAFTNAME>@tools.ietf.org
In a similar manner, to reach a WG's Chairs or ADs, send an email to:
<WG>-chairs@tools.ietf.org or
<WG>-ads@tools.ietf.org, respecitvely.
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IESG Wiki
IESG Guide - Everything an AD Needs to Know
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Comprehensive Mailing List Search
Searches the mailing list archives of the working groups of the
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the research groups of the
Internet Research Task Force (IRTF), as well as several related lists.
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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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Template for Chairs' Document Writeup
This is the current version of the document shepherd writeup
template introduced by RFC 4858.
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Idcomments
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WGs marked with an 
Henrik Levkowetz
