Fossil Draft Metadata Defaults

Shared defaults for all four drafts

Use these defaults unless the suite owner explicitly changes them:

• Submission type: IETF
• Category / intended status: Proposed Standard (std)
• Public deliverables: source Kramdown .md plus rendered IETF .txt
• Intermediate only: .xml is a build artifact, not a public suite deliverable
• Reference pool: draw from references.md and keep per-document citations narrow

Provenance and authorship boundary

• The author block is human-only.
• The artifact document alone carries the mandated transformation/ratification provenance sentence, and it belongs in the abstract opening sentence rather than in the author block.
• Do not add process, audit, or derivation wording to the Delta or Sync front matter.
• RepoState may carry the narrow implementation-preparation sentence used in the later companion draft, but it should not grow workflow/process narration beyond that.

Human authorship default

The original pack expected the suite to present human authors representing:

• Fossil contributors,
• libfossil contributors,
• Dan Shearer as editor/reviewer.

If an implementation uses explicit YAML author entries, keep them human-only and keep the provenance sentence out of author metadata.

Per-document titles and abstract anchors

Artifact

• Title: The Fossil Distributed Version Control System: Artifact Format
• Abstract anchor: one paragraph describing Fossil global state as a content-addressed set of artifacts and stating that the document specifies artifact naming, card syntax, structural artifact types, and checksum computations.
• Required opening sentence:

This document is a largely automated transformation of existing implementation texts, pending ratification by the Fossil and libfossil contributors identified in the Author list before adoption as a working group document. Once adopted it is maintained through the IETF process.

Delta

• Title: The Fossil Delta Format
• Abstract anchor: one paragraph stating that Fossil represents an artifact as a delta against a source artifact and that the document specifies the delta encoding.

Sync

• Title: The Fossil Distributed Version Control System: Sync Protocol
• Abstract anchor: one paragraph stating that the protocol synchronises content-addressed artifacts between two repositories over HTTP and that the document specifies transport, card vocabulary, authentication, and current-wire-version synchronisation strategy.

RepoState

• Title: The Fossil Distributed Version Control System: Repository State and Check-in Resolution
• Abstract anchor: one paragraph stating that the document derives branches, tags, leaves, closed markers, and the current-trunk check-in from the crosslinked set of stored structural artifacts, and that it defines check-in graph construction, crosslink processing, tag propagation, leaf enumeration, and symbolic-name resolution.
• Optional closing sentence: This specification was prepared from the behavior of the reference Fossil implementation.

What stays outside this file

The following are intentionally not restated here:

• blank-line and kramdown parser mechanics,
• BCP 14 boilerplate mechanics,
• local install commands,
• refcache/network build behavior.

Those belong in neutral toolchain guidance, not the Fossil project pack.