Are We Meeting the Requirements?

• Broad coverage

  • Terrain, ocean, atmosphere, space, planets, …
  • And buildings, rooms, furniture, equipment, components, ...
  • Both fixed and dynamic phenomena (temporal)
  • Functionally neutral

• Unambiguous

  • Well-formed definitions and metadata
  • Clean separation of semantics from syntax
  • Independent of Data Model(s)

• Scalable, flexible, extensible

  • Low overhead evolution; responsive to customers

• Mappings

  • To other domain-specific standards

Coding Spec Requirement:

Satisfied by EDCS:

Conceptual and Functional Requirements Achieved, sub-domain coverage is never-ending.

Some Exist,

More will emerge

Always adding

Independent of any data model; succeeded

in separation of semantics from syntax; improving the definitions.

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