This document is intended to be a complete specification of the Verse system, in all its parts. It begins by describing the data model, moves along to how the data model is made available over a network, and finally talks about the Verse standard C application programming interface.
The reader is assumed to have a certain level of technical proficiency, since this document often has reason to be rather low-level. The detail level can be said to increase over the three major parts, but this is more of a general trend than a struct rule.
This document was written by Emil Brink, with much of the initial structure and text coming from an original document by Eskil Steenberg, and his reference implementation of the Verse standard. Most of the document was written in the DocBook format, although much of the highly structured data (the type, command and API references) were created programmatically from custom XML data, processed into DocBook using XSLT.