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Working Drafts: Specification Guidelines

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Published:: 2 May 2005

The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group updated two Working Drafts written for W3C editors. QA Framework: Specification Guidelines is designed to help make technical reports easy to interpret without ambiguity. The guidelines explain how to define and specify conformance and how a specification might allow variation. Variability in Specifications contains advanced design considerations and conformance-related techniques. Visit the QA home page.

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