How it Works

In 2006, The V3 process was kicked off and the group assembled a list of problems to solve and new functionality to add. Each item on the laundry list fell into one of three categories:

* Interoperability

* Simplicity

* Functionality

We can have any two. Describing a complete service with complete functionality can either be interoperable or simple. V2 achieves a certain balance but several
interoperability issues and use cases are left as an exercise for the reader. Yet, the V3 working group de%uFB01ned interoperability as more important than the other two combined which led to %uFB01nding a new balance among these characteristics…

This set of slide presentations provides an overview of the patterns and issues relating to the proposed OSID V3 specification.

Graphical representation of the pattern relationships among the interfaces of the typical V3 OSID definition.