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specifications
- Aug 28, 2026 Consensus, Voting Rules and the Burden of an Objection How committee votes, comment resolutions and national-body ballots decide what a specification says, and why unanimity requirements produce vague text. computing history
- Dec 8, 2025 Open Standards and Implementability: The Two Definitions That Do Not Match Why openness is claimed by bodies that mean different things by it, and which of the claimed properties an implementer can actually verify. computing history
- Jul 15, 2025 Normative and Informative Text in a Specification Why specifications split their prose into requirements and commentary, how normative keywords bind an implementation, and where the split breaks down. computing history
- May 17, 2024 Profiles and Conformance Classes: Narrowing a Standard Without Editing It How profiles make a broad specification testable for a specific market, what a conformance class promises, and why profiles proliferate. computing history
- Apr 5, 2024 De Jure Standard Versus De Facto Implementation What actually makes a specification binding, how a vendor artefact becomes the reference behaviour, and why the two kinds of standard diverge in court and in practice. computing history
- Jan 28, 2024 Reference Implementations and the Conformance Laboratory How a second independent implementation turns a specification into a testable claim, and what conformance suites certify versus what they leave to precedent. computing history