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<h1>QA in other standards bodies</h1>

<p>This document is a non-exhaustive list of references to the QA practices in other standards bodies (loosely selected among those <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/11/StdLiaison">with which W3C has a liaison</a>. It is meant to be a useful tool to compare these practices, see what they have in common and how they differ, in order to improve W3C own quality practices.</p>

<h2 id="id01">IETF</h2>
<p>The IETF has "<a href="http://www.ietf.org/ietf/03jul/coach.txt">started an effort called Comprehensive Approach to Quality (COACH)</a>", with the goals of identifying weak points in its Working Groups processes. This document references other relevant drafts:</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.drizzle.com/~aboba/AAA/draft-loughney-coach-00.txt">A Comprehensive Approach to Quality (COACH)</a> focuses on processes and WG's life, a bit like OpsGL</li>
<li>the <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2360.txt">Guide for Internet Standards Writers</a> is specifically targeted at specifications writers, in the same field as SpecGL</li>
<li>the <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1111.txt">Request for Comments on Request for Comments (Instructions to RFC Authors)</a> and the <a href="http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-guidelines.txt">Guidelines to Authors of Internet-Drafts</a> are the equivalent of our pubrules and Manual of Style (also the infamous <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt">RFC 2119 Keywords definition</a>)</li>
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<h2 id="id02">OASIS</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/305/conformance_requirements-v1.pdf">Conformance TC Specification: Conformance Requirements for Specifications</a>, a precursor to SpecGL</li>
<li>several <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/">Technical Committees</a> to develop Test Suites, and in the case of ebXML, with 2 separated TC for <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ebxml-iic-conform">conformance</a> vs <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ebxml-iic-interop">interop testing</a>.</li>
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<h2 id="id03">ISO</h2>
<ul>
<li>ISO/IEC-9646-1</li>
<li>ISO/IEC Directives Part 3, Rules for the structure and drafting of International Standards - equivalent to PubRules and Manual of Style with a bit of SpecGL</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="id04">IEEE</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://standards.ieee.org/guides/style/index.html">IEEE Standards Style Manual</a> is the equivalent of our pubrules/Manual Of Style  (interesting usage note on the <a href="http://standards.ieee.org/guides/style/section5.html#537">word usage for conformance requirements</a>)</li>
</ul>


<h2 id="itu">ITU</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/studygroups/com17/sg17-q22.html">Question 22/17 - Quality aspects of protocol-related Recommendations</a></li>
<li>the <a href="http://www.itu.int/itudoc/itu-t/com10/dcontr/dc-mar98/030.html">Guidelines on Quality Aspects of Protocol Related Recommendations</a> (@@@ not publicly available)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/studygroups/com17/sg17-q21.html">Question 21/17 - Quality assurance, methodology and use of description techniques</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="etsi">ETSI</h2>
<ul>
<li>ETSI quality effort produced an updated version of their guide "<a href="http://portal.etsi.org/mbs/">Making Better Standards</a>"</li>
<li><a href="http://www.etsi.org/ptcc/ptccttcn3.htm">The Testing and Test Control Notation</a> could a useful basis for more automation of testing</li>
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<h2 id="oma">OMA</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.openmobilealliance.org/tech/wg_committees/iop.html">Interoperability Working Group </a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="ogc">Open GIS Consortium</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.opengis.org/resources/?page=testing">testing at OGC</a>, with a list of <a href="http://www.opengis.org/resources/?page=testing&amp;view=testSuites">Test Suites</a></li>
<li><a href="http://cite.occamlab.com/">Compliance &amp; Interoperability Testing &amp; Evaluation Initiative</a> and the <a href="http://cite.occamlab.com/test_engine/">test engine</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.opengis.org/resources/testing/docs/03-085r1.pdf">Compliance Testing Program</a></li>
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<h2 id="vxml">VoiceXML</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.voicexml.org/conformance/">VoiceXML Forum Conformance Program</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="web3d">Web3D</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/Conformance/index.html">Conformance Testing for X3D</a></li>
</ul>

<h2 id="wsi">Web Services Interoperability</h2>
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<li><a href="http://www.ws-i.org/deliverables/workinggroup.aspx?wg=testingtools">Deliverables from the Testing Tools Working Group</a></li>
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