C.2 Operational Requirements

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This section identifies the requirements governing the operation of the capabilities, services, and realizations that satisfy this specification's requirements.

Operational Requirements address the conditions under which distributed verification and testing operate across organizational, administrative, technical, jurisdictional, and governance boundaries.

These requirements govern operational behavior and constraints without prescribing a particular product, implementation, or realization technology.

The requirements in this section derive from the source documents identified in Annex B. Some requirements derive directly from those sources. Others normalize or decompose source concepts into individually verifiable architectural obligations.

Operational Requirements are distinct from Functional Requirements. Functional Requirements define the capabilities and behavior the architecture provides. Operational Requirements define conditions, constraints, responsibilities, and operating characteristics applicable when those capabilities are used.

Requirements

Requirement ID	Requirement Title	Primary Source Basis
OPR-001	Support Distributed Operation	<source basis>
OPR-002	Operate Across Governance Boundaries	<source basis>
OPR-003	Identify Applicable Governance Context	<source basis>
OPR-004	Preserve Governance Determinations	<source basis>
OPR-005	Escalate Unresolved Conflicts	<source basis>
OPR-006	Operate Across Organizational Boundaries	<source basis>
OPR-007	Preserve Traceability Across Boundaries	<source basis>
OPR-008	Preserve Evidence Across Boundaries	<source basis>

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Notes for Editors

Operational Requirements use the OPR requirement prefix.

Do not place Test Environment, Node, Test Definition, Test Execution, or other capability-specific Functional Requirements in this section.

Do not use Operational Requirements to prescribe Crucible, DevSecOps, or another specific realization unless the requirement explicitly governs interoperability with that realization.

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