source: http://docs.oasis-open.org/soa-rm/soa-ra/v1.0/soa-ra-pr-01.pdf 1.3.1
This Reference Architecture follows the ANSI
/IEEE Std 1471-2000 and ISO/IEC 42010-2007
standard. Recommended Practice for Architectural Description of Software-Intensive Systems.
An architectural description
conforming to the ANSI/IEEE 1471-
2000::ISO/IEC 42010-2007 recommended practice is described by a clau
se that includes the following six
(6) elements:
1. Architectural description identification, version, and overview information
Identification of the system
stakeholders and their concerns judged to be relevant to the
architecture
Specifications of each viewpoint that has been selected to or
ganize the repres
entation of the
architecture and the rationale for those selections
One or more architectural views
A record of all known inconsistencies among the
architectural description’s required constituents
A rationale for selection of the architecture (i
n particular, showing how the architecture supports
the identified stakehol
ders’ concerns)