Required Government Content

Required Government Content

The 59 required government content criteria areas were drawn from the Government Web Guidelines. The Government Web Guidelines define what agencies 'must', 'should' and 'may' do on their websites. The definitions used in the Guidelines are from RFC (Internet standard) 2119: www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt. 'Must' is defined as an absolute requirement. 'Should' means that there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a particular item, but the full implications must be understood and carefully weighted before choosing a different course. 'May' means that an item is optional.

The criteria incorporated:

• Content
• Understanding the environment (including copyright and disclaimers)
• Managing content (including language)
• Content requirements (looking at homepages and links)
• Email addresses (ensuring generic email addresses are supported)
• Links to other sites
• Advertising and promotion