First Draft Statement of Relationship to Similar Work

[David Keaton <dmk@dmk.com>]

     To promote SARIF to Candidate OASIS Standard, we need a statement 
of relationship to similar work.  I'd like to propose the following as a 
first draft.  Comments and improvements are welcome.

"SARIF represents an evolution in strategy for common representation of 
the results of static analysis.  The previous generation includes the 
Object Management Group's Tool Output Integration Format (TOIF) 
standard, and software products such as Code DX and Thread Fix.  Their 
strategy involves creating adapters from various tools to the reporting 
format, and as such, they are focused on integrating the diverse input 
formats into the lowest common denominator representation without having 
to modify the original tools.

"By contrast, SARIF aims to support the full capabilities of advanced 
tools, which generally requires modifying the tools to produce SARIF 
output natively."

					David