Palimpsest

Palimpsest is a collaborative editing tool designed to support a structured process. Documents uploaded to a Palimpsest server can be read and annotated by authorized users. Annotations are tagged with a constrained set of semantics which determine the process through which the reaction is closed. Palimpsest forums may be hosted as a trusted or a zero-trust service. The zero-trust host configuration affords true end-to-end security with all content being encrypted on the service but requires the use of a Palimpsest client. In the trusted service configuration, the content is stored on the service in plaintext and users may interact through either the custom client or a standard Web browser. The current scope of Palimpsest is collaborative editing of Internet Drafts but the tool set is intended for collaborative editing of any document. Documents may be uploaded in XML2RFC format and downloaded with the current annotation set in Markdown, Word or XML format. Once a document draft is finished, it can be submitted as an Internet draft.

This section presents the related specifications and standard, the terms that are used as terms of art within the documents and the terms used as requirements language.

This is an informational document and does not contain any normative language.

The Palimpsest reference implementation supports the trusted hosting mode. Users may create accounts, upload documents and annotate the document text.

There should be a mechanism whereby users are required to acknowledge NOTE WELL and agree to its terms before participating.

Currently users are not authenticated and anyone can post as anyone.

This document does not specify any actions for IANA.

This system is based on original work by John Mallery and Roger Hurwitz for Vice President Al Gore's Open Meeting.