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New RFC Editor website is live
Today we are launching the new rfc-editor.org website, the most visible part of a comprehensive overhaul of the tools that support editing and publishing RFCs.
RFC Editor
IETF Tools Team
20 May 2026
IETF 125 Highlights
More than 1500 participants gathered in Shenzhen and online for the IETF 125 meeting 14-20 March 2026 for more than 100 working sessions, an IETF Hackathon, and more.
19 May 2026
Report from the 2026 RPC Retreat
The RFC Production Center (RPC) retreat was a two-day strategic planning session taking place the week of April 20 that gathered the entire RPC team and IETF Administration senior staff.
Sandy Ginoza
Director of RPC Operations
Jean Mahoney
Director of RPC Communications and Strategy
18 May 2026
IETF 125 post-meeting survey
The IETF 125 Shenzhen meeting was held 14-20 March 2026 and the results of the post-meeting survey are now available.
Akanksha Gohil
IETF LLC Research and Insights Analyst
Paige Mustafa
IETF LLC Interim Director of Meeting Operations and Sponsorships
29 Apr 2026
IETF Secretariat continues under new approach
As of 1 April 2026, the IETF Secretariat function will be staffed through an Employer of Record (EOR) arrangement rather than a service contract awarded through a Request for Proposal (RFP) process, as it has been until now.
Mirjam Kühne
IETF Administration LLC Board Chair
Karen Moreland
AMS Partner
31 Mar 2026
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New RFC Editor website is live
Today we are launching the new rfc-editor.org website, the most visible part of a comprehensive overhaul of the tools that support editing and publishing RFCs.
RFC Editor
IETF Tools Team
20 May 2026
IETF 125 Highlights
More than 1500 participants gathered in Shenzhen and online for the IETF 125 meeting 14-20 March 2026 for more than 100 working sessions, an IETF Hackathon, and more.
19 May 2026
Report from the 2026 RPC Retreat
The RFC Production Center (RPC) retreat was a two-day strategic planning session taking place the week of April 20 that gathered the entire RPC team and IETF Administration senior staff.
Sandy Ginoza
Director of RPC Operations
Jean Mahoney
Director of RPC Communications and Strategy
18 May 2026
IETF 125 post-meeting survey
The IETF 125 Shenzhen meeting was held 14-20 March 2026 and the results of the post-meeting survey are now available.
Akanksha Gohil
IETF LLC Research and Insights Analyst
Paige Mustafa
IETF LLC Interim Director of Meeting Operations and Sponsorships
29 Apr 2026
IETF Secretariat continues under new approach
As of 1 April 2026, the IETF Secretariat function will be staffed through an Employer of Record (EOR) arrangement rather than a service contract awarded through a Request for Proposal (RFP) process, as it has been until now.
Mirjam Kühne
IETF Administration LLC Board Chair
Karen Moreland
AMS Partner
31 Mar 2026
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A new suite of modern tools coming for editing and publishing RFCs
RFC Editor
IETF Tools Team
12 May 2026
After a number of years of work, the initial rollout of a modern suite of tools for editing and publishing RFCs, including an entirely new rfc-editor.org website, will take place in May 2026.
UPDATE 12 May 2026: Launch of the new tools for editing and publishing RFCs originally anticipated for 13 May has been deferred until the week of 18 May.
Since its inception in 1969 with the publication of RFC 1, the RFC Series has had a formal editing and management function that has evolved through multiple iterations, as the series has itself evolved, to the RFC Editor function that we have today. Now with over 9000 documents in the series, RFCs are authored in a variety of tools, often tracked through formal version control, published in RFCXML, and rendered into multiple presentation formats. The role of the RFC Production Center (RPC), the team that delivers the RFC Editor function, has changed significantly as a result.
In recent years it became clear that the tools used by the RPC could not adapt as needed to support these changes. The underlying database was too old, too rigid and too fragile, the editing tools were a large collection of unrelated and hard to maintain scripts, and the rfc-editor.org website was built on a platform far too old to add new functionality and improve usability. In particular, it...