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The Library

Reference notes on the documents agencies send, the standards a signature is validated against, and the privacy instruments that govern possible reading-data features.

01

What this is

These are working notes, kept because the answers were hard to find and because we needed them ourselves. Each page states one thing and shows where it came from, with the date somebody last opened the source.

Nothing here is legal advice. Every page describes a class of document, a published specification, a current OctoDoc capability, or a design clearly labelled post-v1.0 — never what any particular reader should do about their own paperwork.

02

How it is organised

Four sections, each answering a different kind of question. A page belongs to exactly one of them.

  1. 1Compare — Two documents that are frequently confused, and what actually differs between them
  2. 2What it contains — The clause inventory of one class of agreement, in the order it usually appears
  3. 3Standards — The published specifications a signed PDF is validated against
  4. 4Consent — The instrument that would govern a post-v1.0 reading-data feature

CONTENTS

Everything in this section

checklists

  • What it contains

    Each page sets out the clause inventory of one class of agreement in document order, notes which clauses are commonly negotiated, and lists the marks a signer fills.

compare

  • Compare

    Each page takes two documents that get confused for each other and sets out what genuinely differs: which is signed first, who signs each, and which clauses live in one and deliberately not the other.

consent

  • Consent

    A post-v1.0 read link could measure how a document was read. Each page here names the instrument that would govern one piece of that planned design.

standards

  • Standards

    What a validator is actually looking at when it opens a signed PDF, and which published specification defines each part of it.