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Subject: idea from ftf on RM/RA/A
During today's telecon, I remembered a discussion during the ftf that didn't necessarily solve all our problems (Frank wasn't sure if he bought it completely) but I thought I'd capture it here. Go back to our house analogy. The RA captures concepts related to what makes up a house, e.g. room, window, door. It might include the concepts of food preparation area and personal hygiene area and the relationship that there should be physical separation between the two. Note that this provides a very North American/western Europe reference and not necessarily one that covers a tent. So a given RM already provides a perspective. Given RA concepts, various RAs show how these concepts can be arranged in a useful pattern. So RA examples would be (sorry for the American terms) a colonial, a split-level, a rambler, etc. You can play with the pattern but one can say that any given pattern serves a particular set of purposes (e.g. a rambler is on one level for those who want/need to avoid stairs). An architecture is then a specific plan to build a house or set of houses. There can still be some variations but you don't do things like moving fireplaces or structural walls, else you have a new architecture. Chew this one over and see what you think. Ken -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- / Ken Laskey \ | MITRE Corporation, M/S H305 phone: 703-983-7934 | | 7515 Colshire Drive fax: 703-983-1379 | \ McLean VA 22102-7508 / ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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