MO-001 — Governed Distributed Test Environments

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Statement

DIDO-TE SHALL maintain each Test Environment as Governed throughout its Operational Lifecycle.

Source

This requirement consolidates mission-level intent from the following Original Requirements in the draft DIDO-TE Requirements Register:

REQ-0001 — Three-level governance hierarchyREQ-0002 — Governance organs per levelREQ-0003 — Membership request workflowREQ-0005 — Legal documents per governance levelREQ-0006 — Additive-only legal-document inheritanceREQ-0008 — Domain access-control quadrant declarationREQ-0009 — Tenancy isolation along governance boundariesREQ-0010 — Domain-scoped environmentsREQ-0086 — Substrate as a governed object with a recorded lifecycleThe Original Requirements establish mission-level intent concerning:

A governance hierarchyGoverning AuthoritiesGovernance organizationsGovernance RolesGovernance DomainsGovernance PoliciesMembership decisionsAuthorization boundariesTenancy boundariesTest Environment governanceSupporting-infrastructure governanceOperational Lifecycle governanceMO-001 expresses the common mission-level outcome that each Test Environment remains Governed throughout its Operational Lifecycle.

The supporting Operational, Functional, Security, Logging and Auditing, and Data Management requirements define the independently verifiable obligations governing:

Governance structuresAuthorityRole assignmentsGovernance Policy applicationAuthorizationIsolationTest Environment ownershipOperational Lifecycle transitionsGovernance recordsGovernance Evidence

Rationale

A Test Environment can:

Allocate and consume ResourcesUse Operational ResourcesOperate NodesOperate Node SetsUse Deployment TargetsPerform Test ExecutionExecute softwareExchange informationAccess protected ResourcesCreate Test ResultsCreate EvidenceAffect systems operated by multiple OrganizationsEach Test Environment requires an explicit governance context that identifies:

The governing AuthorityThe applicable Governance DomainThe governed Test EnvironmentThe applicable scopeThe applicable OrganizationsThe applicable Communities of InterestThe responsible ActorsThe applicable RolesThe applicable responsibilitiesThe applicable decision rightsThe applicable Governance PoliciesThe applicable approval processesThe applicable change-control processesThe applicable exception and waiver processesThe applicable enforcement mechanismsThe applicable accountability mechanismsThe required EvidenceThe required ProvenanceThe required TraceabilityGovernance applies throughout the Operational Lifecycle of the Test Environment. Governance does not end after DIDO-TE creates, provisions, deploys, or activates the Test Environment.

The supporting requirements define how DIDO-TE establishes, applies, evaluates, records, and enforces the applicable governance context. MO-001 establishes the mission-level outcome that the Test Environment remains Governed.

Applies To

This requirement applies to:

Governing AuthoritiesOrganizationsCommunities of InterestActorsRolesGovernance PoliciesTest Environment operationsTest Environment ResourcesOperational ResourcesNodesNode SetsDeployment TargetsTest DefinitionsTest RunsTest ResultsValidation DecisionsEvidenceProvenanceTraceabilityConnected EnvironmentsDisconnected EnvironmentsAir-Gapped EnvironmentsThe Operational Lifecycle of each Test Environment

Verification

Verification confirms that:

Each Test Environment has an identified governance contextThe governance context identifies the governing AuthorityThe governance context identifies the applicable Governance DomainThe governance context identifies the governed Test EnvironmentThe governance context identifies its applicable scopeThe governance context identifies the applicable Organizations and Communities of InterestThe governance context identifies the applicable Actors and RolesThe governance context identifies the applicable responsibilities and decision rightsThe governance context identifies the applicable Governance PoliciesThe governance context identifies the applicable approval processesThe governance context identifies the applicable change-control processesThe governance context identifies the applicable exception and waiver processesThe governance context identifies the applicable enforcement mechanismsThe governance context identifies the applicable accountability and review processesDIDO-TE applies the governance context to Test Environment operationsDIDO-TE evaluates each governed Test Environment operation according to the applicable Governance PoliciesDIDO-TE applies the governance context throughout the Operational Lifecycle of the Test EnvironmentDIDO-TE applies the governance context in Connected, Disconnected, and Air-Gapped EnvironmentsDIDO-TE preserves the Evidence required to demonstrate application of the governance contextDIDO-TE preserves Provenance for governance decisions and Test Environment operationsThe verification record preserves Traceability among the Test Environment, governing Authority, Governance Domain, Actors, Roles, Governance Policies, governance decisions, Test Environment operations, Evidence, and verification result

Referenced By

The following pages reference this requirement:

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Issues

The following unresolved issues affect this requirement:

Notes for Editors

This requirement page retains the stable requirement identifier MO-001.

This page is a leaf requirement page and omits a trailing :start from its namespace.

MO-001 consolidates mission-level intent from multiple Original Requirements. MO-001 does not result from splitting a single parent requirement and therefore uses a Source section rather than a Derived From section.

Changes to the Statement preserve:

as the responsible ActorEach Test Environment as the governed subjectGoverned as the required conditionThe Operational Lifecycle as the temporal scope of the obligationThe supporting requirements define:

The governance hierarchyThe governing AuthoritiesThe Governance DomainsThe relationship between each Test Environment and its Governance DomainThe applicable Actors and RolesThe applicable responsibilitiesThe applicable decision rightsThe governed Test Environment operationsGovernance Policy applicationGovernance Policy inheritanceGovernance Policy precedenceGovernance Policy conflict resolutionAuthorization decisionsTenancy isolationTest Environment Operational Lifecycle governanceGovernance recordsGovernance EvidenceGovernance decision ProvenanceGovernance decision TraceabilityMaterial changes receive review and update the verification criteria, source records, supporting requirements, and Issues section.

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