SACM — Need a revised compliance point approach

Need a revised compliance point approach. Suggestion is that there is a compliance point
such that existing tool vendors can claim compliance. Perhaps other complicance points. This
would be of interest to OMG/ISO.

replace the entire section 2. Conformance with the following:
2. Conformance
Structured Assurance Case Metamodel (SACM) specification defines the following 3 compliance points:
Argumentation
Evidence Container
Assurance Case
2.1. Argumentation compliance point
Software that conforms to the SACM specification at the Argumentation compliance point shall be able to
import and export XMI documents that conform with the SACM XML Schema produced by applying XMI
rules to the normative MOF metamodel defined in the Argumentation subpackage of the SACM
specification, including the common elements defined in the Common and Predefined diagrams of the
SACM. The top object of the Argumentation package as a unit of interchange shall be the
Argumentation::Argumentation element of the SACM.
Conformance to the Argumentation compliance point does not entail support for the Evidence subpackage
of SACM, or the Administration diagram of the SACM. Links to the evidence items in the Argumentation::InformationElement shall be made using the ‘url’ attribute. The ‘evidence’ association
shall not be used.
This compliance point facilitates interchange of the structured argumentation documents produced by
existing tools supporting The Goal Structuring Notation (GSN) and Claims-Arguments-Evidence (CAE)
notation. Examples of the SACM XML interchange documents and the corresponding GSN and CAE
diagrams are provided in Annex B.
2.2. Evidence Container compliance point
Software that conforms to the specification at the Evidence Container compliance point shall be able to
import and export XMI documents that conform with the SACM XML Schema produced by applying XMI
rules to the normative MOF metamodel defined in this Evidence subpackage of the SACM specification,
including the common elements defined in the Common and Predefined diagrams of the SACM. The top
object of the Evidence package as a unit of interchange shall be the Evidence::EvidenceContainer element
of the SACM.
Conformance to the Evidence compliance point does not entail support for the Argumentation subpackage
of SACM, or the Administration diagram of the SACM. Claims in the Evidence::ReferencedClaim element
shall be explicitly defined using the ‘content’ attribute of the Evidence::ReferencedClaim element. The
‘claim’ association shall not be used.
This compliance point facilitates interchange of the precise statements related to evidence. In particular,
this compliance point facilitates development of evidence repositories in support of software assurance and
regulatory compliance.
2.3. Assurance Case compliance point
Software that conforms to the specification at the Assurance Case compliance point shall be able to import
and export XMI documents that conform with the SACM XML Schema produced by applying XMI rules
to the normative MOF metamodel defined in this entire specification. The top object of the Assurance Case
package as a unit of interchange shall be the SACM::AssuranceCase element.