Guideline summary

Operational procedures define the sequence of state changes during the interaction, and optionally, the event that triggered these changes.

Protocol design

The design of operational procedures should be scenario based, such that only features relevant to the situation are available to the operators (more ).

Information arrangement

guidelines about information arrangement

Branching options

In designing a protocol, branching from a frequently used sequence of operation should be early in the protocol ( more ).

Setting parameter values

The protocol should include presenting values acceptable for the parameter, so that the operators can choose from the proposed set ( more ).

Selection

The protocol may propose a preferred value that may be used as a default value ( more ).

Using default values

Preferred value may be used as recommendations, and shall not be set automatically ( more ).