TU Dresden This document aims to provide guidelines and best practices for writing security considerations for technical specifications for RATS targeting the needs of implementers, researchers, and protocol designers. In particular, it discusses some of the 'bottom turtle' issues. This is a work-in-progress, and the current version mainly presents an outline of the topics that future versions will cover in more detail. * Corrections in published RATS RFCs * Security concerns in two RATS drafts * General security guidelines, baseline, or template for RATS