Introduction

Objective

This document is the Portfolio of Digital Open Standards – Glossary & Roles. The objective is to provide definitions of glossary items and roles used within The Open Group Portfolio of Digital Open Standards.

This Snapshot document is intended to make public the direction and thinking for the Glossary & Roles definitions for the Portfolio of Digital Open Standards. We invite your feedback and guidance. To provide feedback on this Snapshot document, please send comments by email to ogspecs-snapshot-feedback@opengroup.org, or if reading the html edition using the feedback link, no later than December 1 2023.

Overview

This document contains two sections, the Glossary (see Glossary) and Roles (see Roles).

Conformance

This is a Snapshot, not an approved standard. Do not specify or claim conformance to it.

Normative References

Normative references are included within the individual Glossary and Role entries.

Terminology

For the purposes of this document, where descriptive text describes behavior associated with a definition the following terminology definitions apply:

Can

Describes a possible feature or behavior available to the user or application.

May

Describes a feature or behavior that is optional. To avoid ambiguity, the opposite of “may” is expressed as “need not”, instead of “may not”.

Shall

Describes a feature or behavior that is a requirement. To avoid ambiguity, do not use “must” as an alternative to “shall”.

Shall not

Describes a feature or behavior that is an absolute prohibition.

Should

Describes a feature or behavior that is recommended but not required.

Will

Same meaning as “shall”; “shall” is the preferred term.

Future Directions

This is a Snapshot document and will be revised.