internet-drafts/README.txt

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This repository contains different p≡p Internet-Drafts -- some already
submitted in different versions, others under development and yet to
be submitted in a first version -- to the IETF Internet-Drafts repository:
https://www.ietf.org/id-info/
In each directory an Internet-Draft (I-D) is provided, these for now being:
* pep (pEp's general draft)
* pep-email (pEp with email)
* pep-handshake (pEp's method to authenticate peers)
* pep-keysync (pEp's method to synchronize secret keys)
* pep-rating (pEp's rating system to signal privacy levels)
* pep-trustwords (pEp's replacement for fingerprints)
Tools
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The mandatory ASCII or XML files for submission are created using
the kramdown-rfc2629 tool creating the XMLv2 format initially described as
RFC2629 (obsoleted by RFC7749):
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7749
Please install kramdown-rfc2629, ruby and xml2rfc through your package
system or directly from the respective sites:
* https://github.com/cabo/kramdown-rfc2629
* https://www.ruby-lang.org/
* https://xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org/
You can also also install kramdown-rfc2629 through the ruby gem
packaging system if your packaging system doesn't know anything
about this tool:
https://rubygems.org/
Structure and contents of each I-D
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Each p≡p I-D consists of the following raw files:
* ${name_of_the_draft}.mkd
* Makefile
Abstracts should give a rough overview of what the I-D is about: this is to
happen over 5-10 lines. Less than 3 and more than 20 lines should be avoided.
The main content goes into the middle section: make sure you also provide
"Introduction" and "Security Consideration" subsections. For the latter,
please check RFC3552 to see what aspects to consider:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3552
A back section can be used for appendix information like listings or
information which provides additional information, but which is not
mandatory to understand the I-D.
Basic metadata (e.g., authors' names, email addresses and the draft title),
but also references (including RFCs, by instance) are made available through
a special syntax at the beginning of the Markdown file.
Makefile contains the build instructions to generate the I-Ds in the required
ASCII and xml2rfc v2 forms accepted by the IETF submission system. Additionally,
it also creates an HTML version.
By default, revision number (REV) is set to "00": make sure to increment this
as IETF contributions are furthered.
Version Control System (Mercurial)
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Most important commands:
* download repository / initialization
1) hg clone https://pep.foundation/dev/repos/internet-drafts/
* Update local directories to latest repository state:
1) hg pull
2) hg update
Note: Merge handling may be required to take care of
(if indicated after hg update)
* Upload local changes to repository
Important: To avoid conflicts, _always_ update the local directories
to latest repository state (see commands in last bullet point)
_before_commit_!
1) hg commit -m "<Changelog, short description of changes>" [ <filename> ]
2) hg push
More information:
* https://www.mercurial-scm.org/
* https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/Tutorial