Format for RFCs in the IAB Stream ---------------------------------- Below is general guidance about the format for IAB stream documents. This is intended to supplement RFC7841 and the information at . If instructions conflict, Those documents have precedence. - Regarding use of "Ed.", the header of the I-D determines the header of the RFC. The IAB is determining author listings on a case-by-case basis. For example, the following are both possible: Internet Architecture Board (IAB) D. Thaler, Ed. Request for Comments: 5902 L. Zhang, Ed. Category: Informational G. Lebovitz, Ed. ISSN: 2070-1721 July 2010 Internet Architecture Board (IAB) D. Thaler Request for Comments: 5902 L. Zhang Category: Informational G. Lebovitz ISSN: 2070-1721 July 2010 Each author's name SHOULD be listed without an organization. - The IAB is not to be listed in the Authors' Addresses Section. The document is identified as an IAB stream document via the header as indicated above. - IAB consensus documents include a list of IAB members that were part of the IAB when the document was approved, in a section entitled "IAB Members at the Time of Approval". - Workshop reports The following boilerplate paragraph is to appear at the end of the abstract: Note that this document is a report on the proceedings of the workshop. The views and positions documented in this report are those of the workshop participants and do not necessarily reflect IAB views and positions. The following boilerplate paragraph SHOULD appear in the introduction: The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) holds occasional workshops designed to consider long-term issues and strategies for the Internet, and to suggest future directions for the Internet architecture. This long-term planning function of the IAB is complementary to the ongoing engineering efforts performed by working groups of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Additional workshop specific information may be added to that paragraph as long as the existing sentences are retained. For example, the recent IOTSI workshop report contained this variant: The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) holds occasional workshops designed to consider long-term issues and strategies for the Internet, and to suggest future directions for the Internet architecture. The investigated topics often require coordinated efforts of many organizations and industry bodies to improve an identified problem. One of the targets of the workshops is to establish communication between relevant organizations, especially when the topics are out of the scope for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). This long-term planning function of the IAB is complementary to the ongoing engineering efforts performed by working groups of the IETF. Workshop reports are to contain an appendix listing the workshop participants. ---------------------------------- Last edited 2 Oct 2018.