Technical Standards Views (TV) [Standards Views]

TV-2 Standards Forecast

The Standards Forecast contains expected changes in technology-related standards and conventions, which are documented in the TV-1 Product.

Note: the name of this MODAF view was changed from ‘Technical Standards Forecast’ following the MODAF Technical Group meeting on 9 February 2007.

Background:

The forecast for evolutionary changes in the standards need to be correlated against the time periods mentioned in the SV-8 and SV-9 Products.

A Standards Forecast is a detailed description of emerging standards relevant to the systems and business processes covered by the architecture. The forecast should be tailored to focus on areas that are related to the purpose for which a given architecture description is being built, and should identify issues that will affect the architecture.

A TV-2 complements and expands on the Standards Profile (TV-1) product and should be used when more than one emerging standard time-period is applicable to the architecture. For standards advice refer to the JSP 602 series of documents.

One of the prime purposes of this Product is to identify critical technology standards, their fragility, and the impact of these standards on the future development and maintainability of the Architecture and its constituent elements.

Usage:

Forecasting future changes in standards (informing project strategy)

Data objects:

The data in an TV-2 can include:

Standard (evolution over time)

Representation:

Tabulation

Detailed Product Description:

The Standards Forecast contains expected changes in standards and conventions, which are documented in the TV-1 Product. The forecast for evolutionary changes in the standards need to be correlated against the time periods mentioned in the SV-8 and SV-9 Products.

TV-2 lists emerging or evolving standards relevant to the systems covered by the Architecture. It contains predictions about the availability of emerging standards, and relates these predictions to the System Viewpoint elements and the time periods that are listed in the SV-8 and SV-9.

The specific time periods selected (e.g. 6-month, 12-month, intervals) and the standards being tracked will be coordinated with Architecture transition plans (see SV-8). That is, insertion of new capabilities and upgrading of existing systems may depend on, or be driven by, the availability of new standards and Products incorporating those standards. The forecast specifies potential standards and thus impacts current Architectures and influences the development of transition and objective (i.e., target) Architectures. The forecast will be tailored to focus on standards areas that are related to the purpose for which a given Architecture is being described and should identify potential standards affecting that Architecture. If interface standards are an integral part of the technologies important to the evolution of a given Architecture, then it may be convenient to combine TV-2 with SV-9. For other projects, it may be convenient to combine all the standards information into one document, combining TV-2 with TV-1.

TV-2 delineates the standards that will potentially impact the relevant system elements (from SV-1, SV-2, SV-4, SV-6, and OV-7) and relates them to the time periods that are listed in the SV-8 and SV-9. A system’s evolution, specified in SV-8, may be tied to a future standard listed in TV-2. A timed technology forecast from SV-9 is related to a TV-2 standards forecast in the following manner: a certain technology may be dependent on a TV-2 standard (i.e., a standard listed in TV-2 may not be adopted until a certain technology becomes available). This is how a prediction on the adoption of a future standard, as applicable to systems elements from SV-1, SV-2, SV-4, SV-6, and OV-7, may be related to standards listed in TV-1 through the SV-9. A template for TV-2 is not shown in this section. The same template shown in TV-1 may be used to describe TV-2.

Example Standards Forecast

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