Use of References in the EDCS
Objective: Unambiguous communication across disparate domains
- Bring together (consistently) concepts that are seen as "authoritative" in those domains.
Typing references:
- Helps identify the degree to which an EDCS concept is viewed as "authoritative" in another community.
- Serves as a starting point for developing mappings from the specialized languages of communities to the cross-community language of the EDCS.
- Two types of reference (normative and informative) are insufficient to capture all of the possible relationships between the EDCS and another document.
In the following:
- The term specification is a document that meets the requirements to be normatively referenced by an International Standard, and the owner of such a specification is the organization responsible for maintaining the specification.
- A two-character acronym is defined denoting each type of reference.