Re: SMIng Requirements: a proposal

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>]

>>>>> David Harrington writes:

David> As I considered how to approach what I felt was a requirements
David> document that was on an information modeling tangent, and
David> recognizing that there are different segments of the WG trying
David> to achieve different things, I suggest the requirements
David> document could be restructured to recognize three different
David> levels of requirements.

[...]

David> By developing the requirements document to recognize these
David> three different approaches, the community can assess the costs
David> and benefits of each level of requirements, and can make an
David> informed judgement as to which approach we should take. If one
David> of the easier approaches is chosen, the requirements of the
David> more full-blown approach could be kept in mind, to allow a
David> later migration to an information-model based approach.

I like this proposal to "modularize" the requirements. I am not 100 %
sure yet we have three different levels, but I am sure we will find
out once we try to categorize the requirements.

/js