The W3C Quality Assurance (QA) Activity has posted the candidate recommendation of QA Framework: Specification Guidelines. Accorsing to the abstract, "The principal goal of this document is to help W3C Working Groups to write clearer, more implementable, and better testable technical reports. It provides both a common framework for specifying conformance requirements and definitions, and also addresses how a specification might allow variation among conforming implementations, both of which facilitate the generation of test materials. The material is presented as a set of organizing guidelines and verifiable checkpoints." Comments are due by May 10.