MARTE12_ — Relationship between MARTE allocations, UML deployment and analysis profiles need to be clarified

UML introduce deployment concepts. MARTE introduces a notion of allocation that seem to encompass deployment-related notions (as stated in the specification). How these concepts relate to analysis attributes is left undefined in the specification at the moment. Depending on the examples one can have a look at, MARTE allocations and UML deployments seem to be used in a similar way (see Section 16.3.3 and Section 17.4). However, nothing is formally stated. Clarify whether MARTE allocations / UML deployment have the same semantics w.r.t. analysis, or not. And, if possible, make the connection with the related issue on host stereotype properties.

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There is already a short discussion on the relationship between MARTE allocation and UML deployment in the specification. The issuer wanted to go more by extending the Deployment metaclass. This seems to restrict a bit the usage of the allocation stereotype and poses compatibility problems with SysML.
This issue needs more discussion to be addressed properly and may involve changes in the specification that are going outside the scope of a revision task force. It may be included in a future major revision of the standard.