Editing Negotiation (section)

===Text-based negotiation===
Text-based negotiation refers to the process of working up the text of an agreement that all parties are willing to accept and sign. Negotiating parties may begin with a draft text, consider new textual suggestions, and work to find the middle ground among various differing positions.<ref>World Trade Organization, [https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news20_e/fish_09oct20_e.htm WTO members search for compromise as text-based negotiations on fishing subsidies continue], published 9 October 2020, accessed 15 October 2020</ref>

Common examples of text-based negotiation include the redaction of a [[constitution]], [[law]] or [[sentence (law)|sentence]] by a [[constitutional assembly]], [[legislature]] or [[court]] respectively. Other more specific examples are [[United Nations|United Nations']] negotiation regarding the reform of the [[UN Security Council]]<ref>United Nations, [https://news.un.org/en/story/2015/01/488342 Previewing work ahead, UN Assembly President says Member States must agree a bold post-2015 agenda], published 15 January 2015, accessed 16 October 2020</ref> and the formation of the [[international agreement]] underpinning the [[Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership]] (RCEP) in the Asia-Pacific Region,<ref>[[CNA (TV network)|CNA]], [https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/rcep-negotiations-signing-expected-2020-12062560 15 nations complete 'text-based' negotiations for RCEP, signing expected in 2020], accessed 15 October 2020</ref> where the parties involved failed in 2019 to agree on a text which would suit [[India]].<ref>[[CNA (TV network)|CNA]], [https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/india-will-not-join-rcep-trade-deal-12062880?cid=h3_referral_inarticlelinks_24082018_cna India will not join RCEP trade deal in blow to sprawling Asian pact], published 4 November 2019, accessed 16 October 2020</ref>

{{anchor|Singleu}}Such negotiations are often founded on the principle that "nothing is agreed until everything is agreed". For example, this principle, also known as the '''single undertaking approach''', is often used in [[World Trade Organization]] negotiations,<ref>World Trade Organization, [https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dda_e/work_organi_e.htm How the negotiations are organized], accessed 29 January 2024</ref> although some negotiations relax this requirement.<ref>Winslett, G., [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/world-trade-review/article/abs/critical-mass-agreements-the-proven-template-for-trade-liberalization-in-the-wto/1411D2BF2BAC8046E2A45EE23B316CB7 Critical Mass Agreements: The Proven Template for Trade Liberalization in the WTO], published online by [[Cambridge University Press]], 20 July 2017, accessed 29 January 2024</ref> The principle formed part of the British negotiating approach for the Brexit deal following the UK's [[Withdrawal from the European Union by the United Kingdom|withdrawal from the European Union]].<ref>Hope, C., [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/11/theresa-may-tell-ireland-nothing-agreed-terms-brexit-row-deal/ Theresa May to tell Ireland 'nothing is agreed' on terms of Brexit as row over deal intensifies], ''The Telegraph'', published 11 December 2017, accessed 29 January 2024</ref>