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Winston Churchill wrote the first well-known white paper. It clarified the British government's view on Palestine. Today, white papers are almost whatever you want them to be. For high-tech white papers, a working definition is:
White papers describe a business or industry problem and provide arguments and evidence for a specific approach to solving the problem.
