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Analysis of the Requirements
One example of work on requirements can be found in the Quality
of Service (QoS) Program.
The object of the first day's meeting at the Berlin Conference
was to look at a number of relevant standards activities, initiatives,
and technologies for QoS to learn what is going on and to avoid
duplication of effort. participants talked about 3 phases
of development of the Group's work: the Definition Phase
to be completed end Q2 2001, the evaluation and decision phase
to be completed Q3 2001, and the implementation phase to start
in Q4 2001.
The Definition Phase takes account of what already exists and
the work of many consortia including IETF, DMTF, CADENUS, OMG,
MPLS, and others. The work includes capturing and prioritizing
requirements and evaluating pertinent efforts of other consortia.
The Group will populate a component map with existing standards
efforts, interfaces, protocols, etc., and will develop a white
paper.
The Evaluation Phase considers the status, fitness for purpose,
and other criteria. It will look at what is the level
of applicability of the standard or activity to the customer
and vendor requirements. It will also look at the level
of support and market adoption for the standard. Questions
to ask include who is involved in the standards activity, what
is the status of the standard, are there any implementations
of the standard, how have they evolved, and if there are multiple
implementations are they interoperable.
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