WGs marked with an This page is not being actively maintained because it has largely been superseded by the front page of tools.ietf.org, which is regularly updated as new tools become available.
All Tools
- ABNF parsing web service from Bill Fenner Category: Verification
- ABNF parsing web service (has problems with some inputs) Category: Verification
- ABNF to Regexp converter Category: Verification
- APG - an ABNF Parser Generator Category: Verification
- htmlwdiff Category: AuthoringProduces a html page with diffs marked with coloured strike-out and underlined text.
- I-D submission tool
Proposed toolCategory: Secretariat ServicesAn automation of the current draft submission procedure, which provides a web interface which will permit direct submission of drafts, without the delays and workload of the current manual handling. - I-D Tracker
- idnits Category: VerificationHenrik Levkowetz' I-D Nits tool
- IETF Mailing List Manager Category: Secretariat ServicesA web form to the community so it can submit a request to add a Mailing List to the Secretariat with AD's approval.
- IETF Meeting Online Payment Category: Secretariat ServicesA web form providing the possibility to pay for online for a meeting one has registered for, using a Credit Card.
- IETF Meeting Registration Category: Secretariat ServicesA web form for pre-registration to the upcoming IETF meeting. It is only available between the time it has been announced on the ietf@ietf.org list that registration is open, and a cutoff date (some days?) before the actual meeting.
- MIB review tools Category: VerificationSmilint and smicng at www.ops.ietf.org
- MIB tools web interface Category: VerificationThis is a web interface to the smilint, smistrip, and smidump tools.
- MIB Samples Category: VerificationBill Fenner's linted MIBs from I-Ds
- msglint Category: VerificationRFC 822/MIME/DSN/MDN/Tracking-Status message validator
- RFC Markup tool Category: Misc.Tool to add html markup to RFCs, drafts, and other related text documents.
- RFC Repository at www.potaroo.net Category: RepositoryUnofficial repository which lists RFCs with extracted summary and obsolecense information.
- RFC Repository at www.faqs.org Category: RepositoryUnofficial repository with added html markup providing links to other RFCs from within the text.
- RFC Repository at www.potaroo.net Category: RepositoryUnofficial repository which lists RFCs with extracted summary and obsolecense information.
- RFC Repository at www.ietf.org Category: RepositoryThe IETF's copy of the RFC Editor's RFC Repository
- RFC Repository at www.rfc-editor.org Category: RepositoryThe RFC Editor's RFC Repository. This is the authoritative repository for RFCs.
- rfc2629xslt Category: AuthoringTo generate html from the xml source of a draft, Julian Reschke's XSLT can also be used.
- rfcdiff Category: AuthoringProduces a side-by-side diff in html format. Strips draft headers and footers so only changes in the draft text are shown, not incidental changes in page breaking.
- Roundup issue tracker at mip4.org Category: WorkgroupRoundup tracker hosted which has been modified to suit Workgroup draft issues, and tie into WG mailing lists, so all comments on a particular issue on the list are added to the tracker, with smart abbreviation of long quoted parts of the message.
- Roundup tracker at roundup.machshav.com Category: Workgroup
- RT at rt.psg.com/ Category: WorkgroupRT is a general ticket handling tool, hosted here for some workgroups.
- Smilint by email Category: VerificationEmail the MIB to smilint@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de with just the MIB module in the message body
- wdiff Category: AuthoringText mode word diff. Available for most flavours of unix and linux, and through cygwin for Windows.
- WG Pages for all WGs at tools.ietf.org Category: WorkgroupAutomatically updated draft summary pages are provided for some workgroups.
These pages pull copies of submitted drafts from the IETF repository, and generates side-by-side html diffs between the new draft and the most recent previous draft. Html-ized versions of the text files are also provided.
- xml2rfc Category: AuthoringThe recommended tool for draft production is to write the draft using xml markup according to RFC 2629 or a successor (rfc2629bis), and then use Marshall Rose's xml2rfc processor to produce text and optionally html forms of the draft.
- Draft Dependency Vizualisation Category: WorkgroupFor each WG, there is a draft dependency graph in PDF format, showing dependencies for each draft that WG has.
Category: IESG, Authoring
This tool keeps track of all drafts that has been submitted to the IESG, and their state. IESG members and the secretariat can make changes to document state, while the public web interface only permits viewing the state of documents.