This is likely not what you are looking for, but worth pointing out, as the web is a distributed system. https://datatracker.ietf.org/ https://datatracker.ietf

This is likely not what you are looking for, but worth pointing out, as the web is a distributed system. https://datatracker.ietf.org/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/ https://www.w3.org/standards/ https://www.w3.org/standards/ edit: Not as formalized as other documents, but you you might enjoy this high-level document: https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html Both IETF and W3C use strong templates for their documents and have well established processes for working groups.