Clarification on Requirements

Hi Folks,

I spoke too late on this weeks WG call and I think my comment was misinterpreted (or not interpreted at all) so I thought it would be best put here in an attempt to better communicate the point.

My point comes at a good time, when Deirdre is asking Use Case proposers to associate Use Case Requirements [0] with their proposed Use Case(s).
My issue here is that I never understood in the first place what the requirements actually were. I still am oblivious as to what some of them really are (of course I can make educated guess). My reasoning for this is that I cannot for the life of me find any documentation to suggest each ‘Requirement’ is accompanied with documentation description to provide context on it’s naming and purpose.

An example is the requirement “SLAAvailable”. I assume that this is Service Level Agreement, however some people may not know this. Another is “DesignatedThingsServiceProviders”. For this one I am still unsure/ignorant of what it actually means.

I ‘meant’ to address the issue of providing context for each and every requirement tag at the TPAC, however I missed the entire TPAC event so this did not happen. In light of this, I would like to clarify a number of things

  *   Does a contextual description exist for each requirements at [0]?
  *   If so then where?
  *   If not then I would like to open an issue to gather such descriptions and bind them to the requirements. This provides us with sound justification as to why requirements are subsequently associated with a particular use case. It also embeds more credibility into the best practices working draft document as it displays evidence of clear logic behind included use cases.

Thanks to anyone able to provide me with any answers for the above.
Lewis

[0] https://www.w3.org/2013/dwbp/wiki/Use-Cases_Requirements_RDF#Potential_requirements

Dr. Lewis John McGibbney PhD, B.Sc., MAGU
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