new motivation element: Justification Source
I would propose a new motivation element: Justification Source.
A Justification Source is a reference to a document, a text, or a section therein that justifies the existence of associated elements.
Meta model:
- An Architecture element is influenced by a Justification source.
- A Justification source is assigned with a requirement. (a requirement is a kind of behavior of a justification source)
Examples of a Justification Source element:
Regulation 2021/2243, Policy brief 2021 Jan, research paper …, security protocols xyzzy …
One could argue that this could be covered by a requirement element. In contractionary of a requirement, this refers the logical carrier of the requirements.
A reasoning against could be to include that in a customized attribute, but in that case a lot of elements may have a same attribute and value.