KDM12 — This document doesn't define the common interchange format (JP-1).

Related to clause 1.

Suggested resolution:

Remove the following statement from scope.

"The primary purpose of this meta-model is to provide a common interchange format that will allow interoperability between existing modernization and software assurance tools, services, and their respective intermediate representations."

Section 1 Scope: change ‘to provide’ into ‘to enable’:
"The primary purpose of this meta-model is to enable a common
interchange format that will allow interoperability between existing
modernization and software assurance tools, services, and their
respective intermediate representations.
In Section 2. Conformance add the following:
KDM is defined via Meta-Object Facility (MOF). KDM defines the
interchange format via the XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) by applying
the standard MOF to XMI mapping to the KDM MOF model. The interchange
format, defined by KDM is called the KDM XMI schema. The KDM XMI schema
is provided as the normative part of this specification."
Also make the following editorial clarifications.
EDITORIAL COMMENT: these edits are made to the conformance paragraph
change:
The primary goal of KDM is to provide the capability to exchange models between tools and thus facilitate
cooperation between tool suppliers by allowing integration information about a complex enterprise
application from multiple sources, as the complexity of modern enterprise applications involves multiple
platform technologies and programming languages.
Into
The primary goal of KDM is to provide the capability to exchange models between tools and thus facilitate
cooperation between tool suppliers to integrate multiple facts about a complex enterprise application from,
as the complexity of modern enterprise applications involves multiple platform technologies and
programming languages. Remove sentence:
Consequently, the definition of compliance for KDM requires a balance to be drawn between modularity
and ease of interchange