Subject: Re: [spring] use case vs requirements

From: "John G. Scudder" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 16:52:23 -0400

Yakov,

On Apr 23, 2014, at 9:24 PM, Yakov Rekhter <[email-masked]> wrote:
> I am still waiting for your response to the e-mail I sent you (see below).
...
> The SPRING WG charter asks for "One or more documents describing
> SPRING use cases".
> 
> Give that, could you, as the SPRING WG co-chairs, comment on whether
> the SPRING use cases document(s) should cover just the use cases, or
> should also include the SPRING architecture requirements.

The short answer is that it seems to the chairs that the proposed use cases documents are acceptable within the charter. 

There are a few reasons for this, and they include the fact that the use cases are presumably there to drive architectural requirements anyway (we are not doing them just for fun) and the fact that the WG charter does not have a separate architectural requirements milestone, but it does have some architecture milestones, so presumably we were going to have to discuss requirements at some point.

Thanks,

--John and Alvaro