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These are notes about processes that I have used for working on specifications within a working group. They are not endorsed by anybody anywhere, and may be incomplete or wrong.

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Last played with $Date: 2001/05/16 15:38:20 $ by Charles McCN

A process for working on specifications

This really comes from working on WAI specifications, which generally come with a short, normative specification called Guidelines, which include a set of requirements that are called checkpoints and an informative document that is an appendix - called Techniques.

Rationale:

Process requirements