Information Technology Reference
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Chapter 16
A Broader View
Marcus turned back at the door. \One nal piece of news," he said, \I've
just been told that the PhoneMob system has been nominated for an IT Guild
award. Well done everybody." Eleanor looked up. \Have you told Alex yet?
And are you going to get him to advise on the new project?"
Marcus looked round the faces of the team, and thought how well they
were working together now.
\I'll add a note to his Christmas card, and get my PA to send him a case
of his favourite Pinot Noir. But I don't think we need trouble him again. I
think you all know how to do it yourselves, now." He smiled briey at them
and closed the door after him.
16.1
Where to Look Next
Having read this far, you probably want to know more; so what next?
One answer is to go to the standards themselves. The best place to start is
probably with the introduction to UML4ODP, which was the most recently
published, but before long you will want to read Parts 2 [3] and 3 [4] of the
reference model, as being the source of most of the ideas. These are publicly
available online from ISO or ITU-T, as are a number of the other supporting
standards. Part 2 explains the basic concepts and vocabulary used across
all the viewpoints, while Part 3 introduces the five viewpoint languages, the
transparencies and the supporting functions.
More detail of the business-facing aspects can then be found in the en-
terprise language standard [17]. Some additional detail of the key techniques
for supporting the building of configurations in the computational and en-
gineering viewpoints can be found in the Interface References and Binding
standard [14], while important general material on the manipulation of names
in situations where there are many federated domains is provided in the Nam-
ing Framework [16].
The reference model can be obtained free of charge from the ISO
publicly available standards pages at
http://standards.iso.org/ittf/
PubliclyAvailableStandards/index.html
. The ITU-T makes its versions
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