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Version & Date

Version 3.1

* =  changed at 3.1

+ =  new at 3.1

The change history is derived from the definition of each NATO Architecture view within section 5.2.5 NATO Service-Oriented Views (NSOV) in AC/322(SC/1-WG/1)N(2009)0005-ADD2.  NATO Architecture Framework Version 3.1 document from http://www.nhqc3s.nato.int/Browser.asp?Target=_docs/NAF_v3_1 .

See NAF Release History.

Overview

The NATO Operational View is one of the 7 NATO Architecture Framework Views.

NATO Architecture Framework v3, CHAPTER 1:

The NSOV is added to the NAF to support building architectures based on the concept of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), which is fundamental to the NNEC paradigm. The NSOV is a description of services needed to directly support the operational domain as described in the NATO Operational View. A service, within the NSOV, is understood in its broadest sense, as a unit of work through which a provider provides a useful result to a consumer. NSOV focuses strictly on identifying and describing services. The view also supports the description of service taxonomies, service orchestrations, a mapping of services to operational activities, and a description of service behaviour.

Covered by NATO release conditions.

The NATO Service-Oriented View in NAF has the following 8 sub views:

• NSOV-1 Service Taxonomy Subview
• NSOV-2 Service Definitions Subview*
• NSOV-3 Capability to Service Mapping Subview+
• NSOV-4a Service Constraints Subview+
• NSOV-4b Service State Model Subview+
• NSOV-4c Service Interaction Specification Subview+
• NSOV-5 Service Functionality Subview*
• NSOV-6 Service Composition Subview+

This set is similar to that in the MODAF Service-Oriented Viewpoint.

There are in 49 subviews* defined in the NATO Architecture Framework.

Configuration History

• 3.1 adds NSOV-3 Capability to Service Mapping Subview (was NCV-7 in the NATO Capability View), removes the NSOV-3 Service Orchestration Subview  , removes NSOV-4 Service to Operational Activities Mapping Subview,  adds NSOV-4a, NSOV-4b and NSOV-4c, adds NSOV-6 Service Composition Subview, changes name of NSOV-5 from Service Behaviour Subview to Service Functionality Subview

See Archive- NAF (under Wiki Contents) for deleted subviews and stereotypes.

Comments

Note that the NATO AF 3.1 documentation isn’t yet in a consistent state - it appears to be in the process of changing Subview to View but still has view meaning both an individual (view) specification and a collection of (view) specifications. It is also confused between a view as a specification and the product of that specification. See NATO AF v3.1 - Is It Now Time to Merge MODAF and the NATO AF?

Other Frameworks

See also:

• DODAF::Services Viewpoint
• MODAF::Service-Oriented Viewpoint

References

• Section 5.2.5 of ANNEX 1 TO AC/322(SC/1-WG/1)N(2009)0005-ADD2. NATO Architecture Framework Version 3.1. http://www.nhqc3s.nato.int/Browser.asp?Target=_docs/NAF_v3_1
• The Residual World. NATO AF v3.1 - Is It Now Time to Merge MODAF and the NATO AF? http://trak-community.org/index.php/residualWorld/comments/nato_af_v3.1_is_it_now_time_to_merge_modaf_and_the_nato_af

 

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