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Guidelines for Developing Standards

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Contents

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Types of publications

1.3 Revision of Guidelines

2 Standards development processes

2.1 Communications Alliance document development and maintenance

2.2 Guidelines for Working Committee chairpersons

2.3 Guidelines for Working Committee members

3 Standards writing

3.1 Telecommunications environment

3.2 International alignment

3.3 Telecommunications regimes in other countries

3.4 Costs and benefits

3.5 Future proofing Standards

3.6 Mandatory versus voluntary provisions

3.7 Device configuration

3.8 Referencing Standards

3.9 Network integrity

3.10 Interoperability

3.11 Definition of the Standard Telephone Service

3.12 Emergency call access

3.13 Health and safety

3.14 Telecommunications Network Boundary

3.15 Compliance statements

3.16 Conformance assessment

4 Regulatory

4.1 Primary legislation

4.2 Subordinate legislation

4.3 General legislation