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architecture viewpoint

work product establishing the conventions for the construction, interpretation and use of architecture views to frame specific system concerns

architecture viewpoint Diagram

Clause: 3.1.3.6

Source: ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2011, 3.6

History note: Introduced in ISO/TS 14812:2022

Specializations of architecture viewpoint

Class Description
communications viewpoint architecture viewpoint used to frame concerns related to all layers of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) stack and related management and security issues
enterprise viewpoint architecture viewpoint used to frame the policies, funding incentives, working arrangements and jurisdictional structure that support the technical layers of the architecture
functional viewpoint architecture viewpoint used to frame concerns related to the definition of processes that perform surface transport functions and data flows shared between these processes
physical viewpoint architecture viewpoint used to frame concerns related to the assignment of functionality to physical objects and the interfaces among these physical objects

Relationships for architecture viewpoint

Property Constraint
aggregates some modelKind
frames some concern
governs some architectureView

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