Selecting Standards Process - DRAFT This page describes a process for selecting standards to recommend in the process. This is work-in-progress. Feel free to add comments to it

Motivation

There are a lot of standards and formats out there for various use cases and thus we need criterias to choose between all those available for a specific problems.

The process

1. Do research in the field in question and list all those formats which should be considered
2. Select the best fitting according to the criteria defined below
3. Write down a Technical Recommendation document based on your choice. Optionally list all those you considered.
4. Follow "Process - How to find consensus" in order to reach a final document.

The Criteria for choosing a standard

You should consider 3 criterias:

• The format in question is adopted widely already
• The format in question is not owned by a corporation
• You can give an example on how it's going to be used in the problem field.

If the problem field is rather new and no standard has evolved yet, you should add the following criteria:

• The format is easy to produce and consume by machines.

(This criteria should be true for adopted standards as there will likely be libraries around).

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