To accelerate the API standardization process we can use some tools.
As you know BONDI uses widl format (WebIDL + doxygen).
It has its problems, but it helped us a lot.
We could discuss first the patterns and document format, e.g. XML-based.
This is planned already for BONDI.
In ACCESS I prepared a tool that helped me ensure some quality aspect of the BONDI specs.
It is known as API database approach, since one of the intermediate format is a database that enables SQL queries to the spec.
I assume a tool, format, etc.  could help the group concentrate on the real problems and the syntactical issue could be spotted more easily.
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