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Subject:RE: white papers and such From:"Jane Carnall" <jane -dot- carnall -at- digitalbridges -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 8 Apr 2002 16:23:04 +0100
>Thanks for the definition Bruce. I always wondered what exactly went into a
white paper
>myself. The question that _I_ have now is what's the difference between
white papers and >technical white papers? Anyone? :-)
"A White Paper is a document issued by a government department which
contains detailed proposals for legislation. It is the final stage before
the government introduces its proposals to Parliament in the form of a
Bill." http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/a-z_of_parliament/t-z/new
sid_81000/81974.stm
That is the context in which I always heard the term "white paper" until I
started working for Compaq and discovered that the US computer industry
seemed to have borrowed it. <g> I reviewed three of my co-workers white
papers and discovered that one of them, at least, thought that a white paper
was an uncredited precis of a published book.
Jane Carnall
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