School of Specs

About this school

Where the text comes from, what was changed, and what to be careful with.

The two voices

Everything on the school's own surface is written for you. Everything on paper — the panel that slides in from the right, the clause pages — is the standards document itself, word for word as it was published.

Who wrote the courses

The 190 chapters were written by a language model reading the real clauses and the real meeting papers, one chapter at a time, and checked against them afterwards.

Every clause number a chapter names is verified to exist when the site starts, and every source a chapter cites must be in that course's register — a file generated from data on the machine, never typed from memory. The site refuses to build with a wrong one.

That check cannot tell you whether a sentence describes its clause correctly. So where it matters, read the clause: that is why it is one click away.

Where the documents came from

The clause text was read out of the published Word files by the parser of FriendlySpec, part of the operator's own 3GPP tooling.

24.501 v20.0.0
1340 clauses · 654,034 words · 45 figures · 69 versions
38.300 v19.3.0
617 clauses · 135,587 words · 135 figures · 62 versions
21.900 v20.0.0
97 clauses · 17,565 words · 0 figures · 20 versions
23.501 v20.2.0
1180 clauses · 433,469 words · 164 figures · 50 versions

What was repaired, and why

A Word table cell that spans two rows arrives empty on the second row, and a hyphen Word treats as optional disappears. Each repair below was checked against the published PDF of the same version. Nothing else in the document text was touched.

What this site is not

It is not the standard. If you are implementing, arguing or writing a contract, use the published document from 3GPP or the IETF. This is a way in, not a source of truth.

There is no audio

Podcasts are planned and nothing has been recorded, so they are not in the navigation. What is planned, and why not yet.