Information Interoperability Domains
conference paper
Coalition-wide interoperability can be improved considerably by better harmonisation of all major information standardisation efforts within NATO. This notion is supported by the concept of dividing the NATO C3 information area into more or less independent “information interoperability domains”, collections of information systems that interact via a specific standardised exchange language. Since a single information standard (data model) for the entire NATO C3 area is unlikely to be ever achieved, we will inevitably have multiple domains, related to each other by means of some sort of structure. NATO has to play a co-ordinating role in defining the structure, setting the scope for the domains (and hence the information standards) — hereby minimising the overlap — and providing guidelines for the development of these standards in order to assure that translation between the resulting data models is feasible. Within these margins, specific communities of interest should be made responsible for developing these standards independently. This whole approach, including NATO’s intended role, differs from the current way of working, though migration in this direction is not unrealistic. It would be a significant step towards overall interoperability within (and maybe also outside) NATO.
TNO Identifier
214034
Publisher
NATO-RTO
Source title
RTO SCI Symposium on Architecture for Network-Centric Operations, Athens, Greece, 20-22 October 2003
Place of publication
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Pages
9-1 - 9-42
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