31.Information qualityThe Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 customer documentationuses three designations to indicate the quality verification level for theinformation. Each designation indicates the quality testing level that thedocumentation passed.The quality designation also indicates how the documentation is released.The three quality designations are as follows:• Draft: Draft quality of the document is verified by development. Draftinformation is consistent with the design intent of the service or feature.Sometimes, Draft documentation is released to customers for earlytrials and demos.• Preliminary: Preliminary quality of the document is verified by theproduct support and product verification organizations. Proceduralinformation passes testing on hardware and software. Preliminaryinformation is released to customers for trials and demos.• Standard: Standard quality of the document is verified by product linemanagement. All information is consistent with market positioning andsupport. Standard information is generally available and considered asthe official documentation for the release.Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600Documentation RoadmapNN46205-103 01.01 Standard19 May 2008Copyright © 2008 Nortel Networks.