=====RFC files that are available=====

The files listed below are available from rfc-editor.org via various methods.

Below:
  * "Before" means below RFC 8650 (i.e., before the format change).
  * "After" means RFC 8650 and higher (i.e., after the format change). See [4] for information on the format change.

=== in the primary directory ===

|              ^ Description           ^ Reference            ^
^ .txt    | Before: plain text file\\ After: the text output of xml2rfc (UTF-8-encoded file with a byte order mark)          | -\\ [[https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7994|RFC 7994]]       |
^ .pdf   | Before: (rare cases) a scan of a hardcopy RFC or a PDF with images added by authors (see [1] for details).\\ After: the PDF output of xml2rfc converted to PDF/A-3 using pdfaPilot [2]. | -\\ [[https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7995|RFC 7995]]                |
^ .html   | Before: HTML created from TXT using rfc2html [3]\\ After: the HTML output of xml2rfc.       | -\\ [[https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7992|RFC 7992]]         |
^ .xml  | [Before: if an XML file exists, the RFC Editor can provide it on request.]\\ After: the source file; the output of the preptool     | -\\ [[https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7991|RFC 7991]] and\\ [[https://xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org/xml2rfc-doc.html|xml2rfc Schema Documentation]] |
^ .json | metadata file; see [5] for details.    |     |

=== in pdfrfc/ ===

|              ^ Description       ^   
^ .txt.pdf   | Before: PDF created directly from the TXT file\\ [After: This file does not exist. It is replaced by the PDF output of xml2rfc.] |

=== in prerelease/ ===

|              ^ Description       ^  
^ .notprepped.xml   | The source file before using ''xml2rfc --preptool''. This is provided  for authors who may create a bis document. |

References
  * [1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/faq/#enhanced
  * [2] https://www.callassoftware.com/en/products/pdfapilot
  * [3] https://www.pypi.org/project/rfc2html
  * [4] https://www.rfc-editor.org/format-live/ and [[v3implementation|Format Transition Details]]
  * [5] [[rfc_metadata_in_the_v3_era|Notes on RFC metadata in the v3 era]]

Note: Generally, the "v3 era" refers to after the format change, i.e., RFC 8650 and higher. Time-wise, this was October 2019 and afterwards. (There exists one exception, which was not published in the v3 format -- RFC 8489, published February 2020. Its RFC number is intentionally lower than RFC 8650.)

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