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The aim of this paper is to contribute to the foundations of homotopy theory for simplicial sheaves, as we believe this is the natural context for the development of non-abelian, as well as extraordinary, sheaf cohomology.
In [11] we began constructing a theory of classifying spaces for sheaves of simplicial groupoids, and that study is continued here. Such a theory is essential for the development of basic tools such as Postnikov systems, Atiyah-Hirzebruch spectral sequences, characteristic classes, and cohomology operations in extraordinary cohomology of sheaves. Thus, in some sense, we are continuing the program initiated by Illusie[7], Brown[2], and Brown and Gersten[3], though our basic homotopy theory of simplicial sheaves is different from theirs. In fact, the homotopy theory we use is the global one of [10]. As a result, there is some similarity between our theory and the theory of Jardine[8], which is also partially based on [10]
