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Generality -- Provide safety/security requirements that accommodate and are effective for
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Multiple architectures
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A wide variety of clinical scenarios/applications
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Architecture Specificity
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Component-wise review of safety-related properties in heterogeneous interoperable systems cannot be achieved without defining the architecture within which components interoperate
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The architecture itself plays a key role in controlling potentially hazardous emergent properties by
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Constraining interactions between components
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Providing safety-related services that are used in the mitigation of common faults
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Application Specificity
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Hazards and top-level system safety constraints which typically drive the risk management process are application specific
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Since we are ultimately interested in building safe systems, we need some way in 2800 to talk about specific systems/applications. A structure for the 2800 Family is required that accommodates the following (sometimes conflicting) goals: