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Following this Introduction, this discussion paper is organized as follows:

Section 2, Architectural Views: Presents and describes in detail the DIDO Architecture as a set of components collected into complementary Architectural Views: Stakeholder, Technical, and Taxonomic.

• The Stakeholder View is organized in accordance with the communities considered to be the “customers” of the DIDO RA, e.g., Platform, Domain, and Ecosystem.
• The Technical View is organized into two basic views: Fundamental (e.g., System of Systems, Assurance, Tools) and Node Network.
• The Taxonomic View is organized into four taxonomies: network topology, network access control, nodes, and data.

Standards (technical and de facto) relevant to or associated with the components supporting each view are listed.

Section 3, Governance: Proposes and describes the elements of the governance structure to manage the DIDO Architecture as an Open Source program, i.e., Charter (for the effort as a whole plus each of the DIDO COIs), Policies & Procedures (P&P), and Guide (plain English version of the P&P).

Section 4, Requirements: Lays the groundwork (models and methods) with which to specify, assess, manage, implement, and govern DIDO requirements to ensure well governed DIDO Implementations. Describes in detail the functional and non-functional requirements one must consider during the requirements specification process for DIDO platforms and then how to assess the resulting requirements specifications.

Appendices These are links to the first page of each appendix. Links within these appendices go to the public DIDO Wiki pages.

• Appendix A: Glossary of Terms
• Appendix B: Standards Organizations: Complete listing and description of the Standards Organizations associated with the technical and de facto standards cited in the DIDO RA Architectural Views.
• Appendix C
• Appendix D
• Tools
• Appendix F
• Appendix G
• Acronyms

* [char, nick]Update to describe Section 4 -- I may be able to do this easily enough