What are some innovative publishing layouts to depict a scientific debate? Typically, scientific debates are published in the form of "letter to the editor" to comment on or criticize a previously published paper. Alternatively, papers within the same volume can refer to each other. In both cases the actual nature of the debate that takes place is rendered incompletely. 

Are there some viable alternatives or experimental forms of publishing scientific discourse? Maybe on the level of layout and typesetting?
Some of my work involves development of international standards, on which it can be quite valuable to record the debate leading to a decision.  

Originally this was done in a very ad hoc fashion, via mailing list archives and notes from meetings, then attempting to write "rationale" into the standard.  We are now trying to be more intentional about recording significant debate by using a bug-tracking system on Github.  The jury is still out as to whether this will really work or not, but it seems to be an improvement over not having any system in place.