RE: [xri] Use case proposal

["Lindelsee, Mike" <mlindels@visa.com>]

Thanks for the feedback Drummond.  I agree completely with your suggestion
for the next step.  Based on that, I'll renew my request for everyone to
send any relevant use cases to the list -- I'll collect them and add them to
the requirements doc.

Mike 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Drummond Reed [mailto:Drummond.Reed@onename.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 6:23 PM
> To: Lindelsee, Mike; 'xri@lists.oasis-open.org'
> Subject: RE: [xri] Use case proposal
> 
> 
> Mike,
> 
> I think you nailed it. I like the idea of "modal" use cases 
> for the major
> categories of requirements. I agree we can skip URI and URN because
> Persistence is covered later in the list.
> 
> I also agree with the specific requirements you called out as 
> needing their
> own.
> 
> A suggestion for a next step: writing up a one-paragraph 
> summary of each
> suggested use case and posting to the list for comments. That 
> way we can
> quickly (hopefully) agree on what a good archetypcal use case 
> is for each
> category.
> 
> =Drummond 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lindelsee, Mike [mailto:mlindels@visa.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 10:28 AM
> To: 'xri@lists.oasis-open.org'
> Subject: [xri] Use case proposal
> 
> All,
> 
> During the face-to-face, I was tasked with coming up with a 
> proposal for how
> to tackle and organize the use cases for the requirements 
> document.  After a
> bit of thinking and a review of the current version of the 
> requirements
> document, I think we should capture the major use cases for 
> each of the
> sections of the requirements (i.e., sections 4.1.1 thru 4.3.2)  and
> additionally capture use cases for individual requirements 
> that are either
> hard to understand or are not obviously necessary requirements.
> 
> So, for a start, I believe we need to identify the modal use 
> cases for the
> following areas (with the possible exception of URI and URN 
> -- do we need
> use cases for those two topics?) :
> 
>   URI
>   URN
>   Abstraction and Independence
>   Persistence and Semantic Mapping
>   Cross-Context Identification
>   Extensibility
>   Authority, Delegation & Federation
>   Data Protection and Security (syntax)
>   Resolution
>   Data Protection and Security (resolution)
> 
> In addition, the following requirements (to me at least) seem 
> to warrant use
> cases as well.
> 
>   CR-3 Transport Independence (I think that we see this as obvious and
> others often just don't get it)
>   CR-30 Identifier Mapping
>   CR-31 Combining Permanent and Reassignable Identifiers
>   CR-14 Version Identification
> 
> I welcome all comments and thoughts and am looking to the 
> rest of you in the
> TC for assistance in identifying use cases for all of these areas.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
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