Requirements
Table of Contents / Outline

Version History

Overview

Long-Range Goals
Motivation
Starting Points
General Characteristics

General Functional Requirements

• Hierarchical
• Reusable
• Revisable
• Versionable
• Mailable
• Multiple-Containment
• Distributed
• Administratable
• Differencable
• Linkable
• Categorizable
• Queryable
• Evaluable
• Collaborative
• Attributive
• Quotable
• Accelerative

General System Requirements

• Open
• Extensible
• Secure
• Partionable

DKR Requirements

• Firewalled
• Relational
• Didactic (a teaching device)

Operational Requirements

• Editing
• Email
• Attribution
• Phantom Nodes ?????
• Trash Bin
• Distributed Editing Control
• Version Identification

Data Structure Requirements (Highly Provisional)

Use Cases & Scenarios

General Scenarios

• Software Development discussions and documents
• Strategic Decisions (combinations of alternatives)
• Build a Product/Feature comparison chart
• Build a Requirements/Technology evaluation chart
• Project Management
• Multiple Software Versions
• IBIS-style discusssions
• Mathematical/Logical Reasoning

Specific Use Cases

• Comments
• Suggestions
• Reduction
• Competing Versions

Future: Abstract Knowledge Representation