Technical papers, technical reviews or commentaries, and notes Technical papers are reports of original investigations by the author. They include a description of the technical work, the data or results, and the conclusions drawn. Technical reviews or commentaries are reports that will advance science and technology. They should state a scope. Their content should be interpretive - not simply a compilation of historical information.
Technical notes are similar in scope and content to technical papers.
They differ by being shorter status reports of important work in progress. While they may be incomplete, these materials provide formal preliminary results that may be useful to others in the same or similar fields. This process is consistent with that used by technical journals worldwide. The description of the process is available in a separate document directed to those charged with its management and execution. It is impossible to predict the exact time necessary for peer review, since the process may require revision of portions of the material by the author.