C.16.P:12.2 - SoTA-Echoing
Current measurement, quality, proxy-risk, and comparison practice distinguishes characteristics, scales, measures, scores, indicators, thresholds, comparability, proxy status, and decision use. FPF adopts this line only where it changes examples, non-comparability boundaries, indicator and proxy boundaries, scale and scoring method fields, gate and comparison exits, or conformance checks.
| Practice source | Source-use relation and currentness | What C.16.P adopts or adapts | FPF import boundary |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISO/IEC/IEEE 15939:2017 systems and software measurement process. | Current-standard reference for measurement-process discipline. | Disciplines CharacteristicScaleRepairNote fields for measure, scale, indicator, measurement use, and information need; informs CC-C16P-1 and direct use of C.16, A.17, and A.18. | Does not make “metric” a recovered kind, evidence relation, gate, or decision by itself. |
| ISO/IEC 25010:2023 product quality model. | Current-standard reference for quality-characteristic families. | Disciplines quality and scalar-quality cases: a quality word needs characteristic and scale construction or quality-pattern use named by value before comparison, score, or gate use. | Does not import ISO quality characteristics as the FPF quality ontology; quality-term or evaluative characterization still requires C.16.Q, C.25, or E.21 when live. |
| ISO/IEC 80000 quantities and units practice and VIM-style metrology vocabulary. | Current reference for quantities, units, and measurement vocabulary. | Disciplines unit, value, scale, and scoring-method fields; blocks number-without-scale and unitless comparison overreads. | Does not impose physical-quantity metrology on qualitative, ordinal, or pattern-quality characteristic spaces. |
| NIST AI RMF 1.0 metric and risk-management practice, including measurement, monitoring, validity, and risk-tolerance framing. | Current practice reference for proxy and indicator risk. | Disciplines indicatorRelationRef, indicatorRelationDisposition, proxyDistortionRisk, threshold rule or reference, and non-admissible use; informs the indicator and proxy and score-as-gate anti-patterns. | Does not let a risk metric, dashboard, or benchmark become assurance, release permission, or decision authority. |
Current FPF internal characterization stack: A.17, A.18, C.16, A.19, C.25, C.29, and E.21. | Current FPF governing-source relation; primary authority for FPF characteristic and scale recovery. | Selects the subject pattern after repair and prevents C.16.P from becoming a CHR super-pattern. | Does not copy local trigger lists into subject patterns or replace characteristic-space, quality, mathematical-lens, benchmark, gate, or decision patterns. |
These distinctions block scalar verdicts without declared scale and admissible use. They do not import metric lists, maturity-status schemes, or external scoring traditions as FPF ontology.