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 +Parent issue: RFC Style Guide update
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 +Specific issue: RFC Document Style Guide update (9)
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 +Size (time): 6-18 months
 +Importance/Urgency: High/Medium
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 +Problem Statement:  The RFC Editor is responsible for making sure the overall RFC Series uses a consistent format and style.  The Style Guide (linked to from the RFC Editor website at http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-style-guide/rfc-style) documents the style conventions currently in use by the series and stalled in publishing an update over two years ago.
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 +By remaining as an expired Internet Draft, the direction provided by the Style Guide is compromised, leaving authors and editors without clear guidance.  
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 +There will be some particular areas of controversy in bringing the Style Guide up to date (where "up to date" means "meet the current needs of the community").
 +   * Should the Chicago Manual of Style remain the primary form of style guidance? Is there something out there that would be less US-English-centric?
 +   * is the current permitted abbreviation list acceptable, or do the assumptions that built it no longer apply to the current audience?
 +   * if significant changes are made to the Style Guide, will tools such as xml2rfc need to be revised?
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 +RSE Actions:
 +   * Discuss with Sandy and Alice the story behind the attempted revisions
 +of this doc
 +   * Revise current draft (v09) and publish for comment
 +   * Seek input from RSAG, RSOC, RFC Editor, rfc-interest, ietf
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 +RSOC Actions:
 +   * input requested (the doc influences the series as a whole)
 +   * formal approval required?
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 +RFC Production Center & Publisher Actions:
 +   * Provide input on any particular intent and history behind the current published version of this doc (v09)
 +   * Flag any particular areas of interest
 +   * Certain sections of particular interest to the editors may need to be written by someone in the Production Center (Sandy?)
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 +Costs/Benefits:
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 +Financial: n/a (no new tools required)
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 +Project schedules: may impact other work in RFC Production Center depending on how much needs to be rewritten or reviewed by Production center
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 +Reputation: significant benefit - update to this doc long overdue.  
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 +Estimated completion date:
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 +insufficient info for completion date 
 +v10 draft due June 2012
  
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