2. IETF News

Topic

• RFC Editor
• IETF Tools Team

20 May 2026

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.

As described in our earlier post, this rollout follows several years of work to modernise a set of systems that, in some cases, had been in service for decades.

Visitors to rfc-editor.org will find a site redesigned from the ground up around the needs of RFC consumers. Working with professional UX designers and accessibility specialists, we have rebuilt the site in a modern web framework with improved search across both full text and metadata, better performance under load, and a far better experience on mobile devices and for users relying on assistive technology. The new errata system at errata.rfc-editor.org and the publication queue view at queue.rfc-editor.org are also live.

Behind the scenes, the RFC Production Center is now working in DraftForge, a new Visual Studio Code plugin that replaces the collection of standalone scripts that the team had previously relied on. The RPC database is now integrated with the Datatracker, greatly improving the integrity of RFC metadata when viewed through the Datatracker.

As with any rollout of this scale, we expect to encounter issues that did not surface in testing. Please report any problems or suggestions to support@ietf.org or by opening an issue in the GitHub repository.

This launch is not the end of the work. The new platform enables further improvements. Supported by the ICANN Grant Program, work is already underway on an extensive set of new features for rfc-editor.org, aimed at implementers, researchers, and others who use RFCs in their work.