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Write down your ideas, following the proposed PAD structure (see Description 1). Take good time, a good draft is perhaps not crucial to attain a good final document, but it certainly does help. Remember that you're writing a base for the group to improve and expand upon. Otherwise you may experience problems later on as the expanded document becomes harder to follow. When finished, sign the 'Draft created' line in the tail with name and date.

Then, before any modifications take place, the group must agree that the draft is usable as a base for further modification. If at least half the group are not satisfied then either another group member may try writing a new draft, or the topic is de-registered. The group may elect to stay together and work on a different topic or disband. See "if the draft is unused" and "if the group is disbanded" in Description 3 for more information about this.

Otherwise, if the draft is approved, the rotation process starts. This will eventually produce the final document, and is described in Step 3.

- Order of events:   Form the group   |   Draft creation   |   Pass around   |   Final adjustments
- Descriptions:   PAD structure   |   Tagging system   |   More about the PAD

Brief   |   Background   |   Verbose   |   Comments   |   Tail   |   PAD-map   |   PAD repository