Vocabulary Service Current Status

Summary

The Vocabulary Service description and assumptions are hearing completion, but there is much to do on the modeling of contracts and schemas, and some questions on the structural (hierarchy) modeling.

Risks

Describe each risk, estimate the likelihood (Low, Medium, High) and the severity of impact (Low, Medium, High), and then provide a mitigation plan

#	Description	Likelihood	Severity	Mitigation
1	We need to address a broad range of functionality, but we also need to stage development and not get bogged down in an end-all-be-all implementation.	Low	Med	Carefully stage this service as a set of discrete milestones.
2	We need to minimize dependencies in other services on a complex Vocabulary service, or we will violate principles of agnostic service design.	Low	High	Separate Enumeration service from more sophisticated services
3	Not clear how to handle local changes to an external vocabulary that is regularly updated.	Med	Med	Need to work soon on the definition of requirements and expectations from the community.

Known Issues

Status of Milestones

Complete initial design, specification - In Progress