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Welcome to Echidna!

Echidna, together with a few related sub-projects and tools, is the W3C's automated publication system for technical reports.

To start using the system, you will need:

1. to make sure your type of document is supported by this system.

2. to prepare your document.

3. to get a token for your specification or to have a W3C account participating in a WG

Once you're done with the steps above, you're ready to use Echidna.

In case of doubts, there is also a handy FAQ. Contact your team contact if your question isn't addressed there or ask your question IRC, channel #pub.

Sub-projects and related tools

Here are some projects and tools related to Echidna you might be interested in:

• Specberus
• Third Party Resources Checker
• Generators (see the Spec Generator for Echidna):
• ReSpec
• Bikeshed
• LinkChecker
• w3c-validate
• w3cjs
• Tenon