As the goal of a research report is to convey new and compelling information to readers, your first responsibility in drafting and writing a report on RFCs is to define your report's objectives. Select educative goals that either expand upon current RFC research or else reveal the results of a specific RFC. For example, if your report focuses on the results of a recent RFC relating to a website, one objective might be to highlight potential errors or usability issues relating to the website in question.
The research or data that will compose a report on RFCs consists of information relating to the answers as well as the respondents. For example, if the comments were limited in scope by presenting respondents with a multiple choice comment tool, group similar answers to generate a graph showing what percentage of respondents selected which answers. Additionally, if possible, present information on the demographics of respondents. For example, for a RFC relating to a piece of software, you might indicate how respondents were grouped according to income bracket, age, sex, race and so on.
To transform established objectives and research into a fully structured report, create a superstructure for the report. The superstructure will act as an outline for the full report. It should include the following sections: an introduction, a bulleted list of objectives, your methodology in gathering and presenting information, your results, a discussion of the results, your conclusions regarding the results and discussion, and your recommendations.
Develop each element of the superstructure, making appropriate editorial changes as you write. If possible, share elements of the proposal with a colleague or friend who is able to comment on both the technical aspects of your writing as well as the content of your report. For a report on a RFC, your introduction should discuss the technology for which the RFC was released and your methodology should indicate the structure of the comments left (open-response, multiple choice, Likert scale). Additionally, your results and discussion section can be written jointly, as it will be necessary to refer to specific comments when providing an analysis of those comments.