This document is a set of requirements for consideration in production of a common standard. It has been agreed that there should be no breakage of functionality in the existing base documents.
Consideration needs to be made on how extensions can be layered onto the common standard.
It has been agreed that there will be no amendments to this common standard , in future changes will be handled through the revision process. Scalability Todays systems need to scale to support larger numbers of users, disk space and system resources. The common standard should be reviewed for any built in limitations, and should look to provide scalable functionality. The common standard should not make any implicit assumptions about the size of data types, for example previously some 32-bit implicit assumptions had crept into the standards.