UAF13 — 8.1.1 View Specifications::Architecture Management::States::Architecture Status has Nothing to Do with 'Architecture' - It Describes the State of the Architecture Description

Another consequence of the failure within the UAF to distinguish between 'Architecture' and 'Architecture Description' concepts.

The title of the viewpoint (not 'View Specification') is ' - View Specifications::Architecture Management::States::Architecture Status

'Stakeholders: Enterprise Architects, people who want to understand the architecture governance, Technical Managers. Concerns: architecture status.

Definition: captures version number and approval workflow of the architecture. Recommended Implementation: SysML State Machine Diagram, state table, text.

ArchitecturalDescription

status : String [*]

...

Figure 8:5 - Architecture Status'

Figure 8.5 shows the ArchitectureDescription element - NOT any ...Architecture element. It is clear that the viewpoint describes the state of the architecture description not architecture.

Hence NOT 'architecture governance' - should be 'architecture description governance', 'approval workflow of the architecture description', The name of the viewpoint should be 'Architecture Description State' since 'St' = state and the subject is 'Architecture Description' not 'Architecture'