Given the richness of the model and the clarity of the presentation, the paper is also useful as an introduction to the topic. The paper also has an excellent bibliography. For readers who are already familiar with many versioning models, below is a summary of many of the model's features. This is meant only to help you decide whether the paper is covers issues of interest to you, not as a substitute for the paper itself. There exists default version of each object.
Queries can range over all default versions or all versions.
A configuration is defined by a query View definitions are used to define frozen configurations. But you can nail down specific versions by having the view specify object id's or equivalent. The sequential version chain per branch is defined by time. The model incorporates temporal database concepts, by allowing many version dimensions, labeled by time. Review published with permission.