How to write and propose an RFC?

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Viet picture Viet · Feb 20, 2010 · Viewed 11.4k times · Source

I found that IMAPv4 has a shortcoming as it forces users to download whole body (text/HTML + attachments).

How to write and propose an RFC to address the issue?

Please kindly share if you had experience of previously writing technical documents, proposals, especially RFCs.

Answer

Jörg W Mittag picture Jörg W Mittag · Feb 20, 2010

There's actually an RFC for that: RFC 7322 - RFC Style Guide.

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