This is the working area for the Working Group internet-draft, "Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME)".

• Editor's copy
• Build history
• Working Group Draft

Before submitting feedback, please familiarize yourself with our current issues list and review the working group documents and mailing list discussion. If you're new to this, you may also want to read the Tao of the IETF.

Be aware that all contributions to the specification fall under the "NOTE WELL" terms outlined below.

1. The best way to provide feedback (editorial or design) and ask questions is sending an e-mail to our mailing list (info). This will ensure that the entire Working Group sees your input in a timely fashion.

2. If you have editorial suggestions (i.e., those that do not change the meaning of the specification), you can either:

a) Fork this repository and submit a pull request; this is the lowest friction way to get editorial changes in.

b) Submit a new issue to GitHub, and mention that you believe it is editorial in the issue body. It is not necessary to notify the mailing list for editorial issues.

c) Make comments on individual commits in GitHub. Note that this feedback is processed only with best effort by the editors, so it should only be used for quick editorial suggestions or questions.

3. For non-editorial (i.e., design) issues, you can also create an issue on GitHub. However, you must notify the mailing list when creating such issues, providing a link to the issue in the message body.

Note that GitHub issues are not for substantial discussions; the only appropriate place to discuss design issues is on the mailing list itself.

Formatted text and HTML versions of the draft can be built using make.

$ make

This requires that you have the necessary software installed. There are several other tools that are enabled by make, check the Makefile for details, including links to the software those tools might require.

Mac users will need to install Xcode to get make, see this answer for instructions.

Windows users will need to use Cygwin to get make.

All systems require xml2rfc. This requires Python. The easiest way to get xml2rfc is with pip.

Using a virtualenv:

$ virtualenv --no-site-packages venv
# remember also to activate the virtualenv before any 'make' run
$ source venv/bin/activate
$ pip install xml2rfc

To your local user account:

$ pip install --user xml2rfc

Or globally:

$ sudo pip install xml2rfc

xml2rfc depends on development versions of libxml2 and libxslt1. These packages are named libxml2-dev and libxslt1-dev (Debian, Ubuntu) or libxml2-devel and libxslt1-devel (RedHat, Fedora).

If you use markdown, you will also need to install kramdown-rfc2629, which requires Ruby and can be installed using the Ruby package manager, gem:

$ gem install kramdown-rfc2629

Some other helpful tools are listed in config.mk.

Any submission to the IETF intended by the Contributor for publication as all or part of an IETF Internet-Draft or RFC and any statement made within the context of an IETF activity is considered an "IETF Contribution". Such statements include oral statements in IETF sessions, as well as written and electronic communications made at any time or place, which are addressed to:

• The IETF plenary session
• The IESG, or any member thereof on behalf of the IESG
• Any IETF mailing list, including the IETF list itself, any working group or design team list, or any other list functioning under IETF auspices
• Any IETF working group or portion thereof
• Any Birds of a Feather (BOF) session
• The IAB or any member thereof on behalf of the IAB
• The RFC Editor or the Internet-Drafts function

All IETF Contributions are subject to the rules of RFC 5378 and RFC 3979 (updated by RFC 4879).

Statements made outside of an IETF session, mailing list or other function, that are clearly not intended to be input to an IETF activity, group or function, are not IETF Contributions in the context of this notice.

Please consult RFC 5378 and RFC 3979 for details.

A participant in any IETF activity is deemed to accept all IETF rules of process, as documented in Best Current Practices RFCs and IESG Statements.

A participant in any IETF activity acknowledges that written, audio and video records of meetings may be made and may be available to the public.