RFC Style Guide

How to Write an RTP Payload Format

“…Before starting to write a draft, one should also read the InternetDraft writing guidelines (http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-guidelines.txt), the I-D checklist (http://www.ietf.org/IDChecklist.html), and the RFC Style Guide [RFC7322]. Another document that can be useful is "Guide for Internet Standards Writers" [RFC2360].…”

The "xml2rfc" Version 3 Vocabulary

“…The <author> elements contained within the document's <front> element are used to fill the boilerplate and also to generate the "Author's Address" section (see [RFC7322]). …”

“…This information appears both in the "Author's Address" section and on the front page (see [RFC7322] for more information). If the value is long, an abbreviated variant can be specified in the "abbrev" attribute.…”

“…This convention was later changed to group references into two sets, "Normative" and "Informative", as described in [RFC7322]. This vocabulary supports the split with the <name> child element.…”

“…This document describes version 3 ("v3") of the "xml2rfc" vocabulary: an XML-based language ("Extensible Markup Language" [XML]) used for writing RFCs [RFC7322] and Internet-Drafts [IDGUIDE].…”