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• A clear and detailed specification is required to achieve true portability, and to give real support to vendors. 

Hand-waving about some virtual architecture is not our goal.  The specification shall enable efficient reuse and collaborative progress among companies in this industry.  

• Specifications like these are best developed as open specifications and just like open-source code, it should stand on the shoulders of previous work. 

It Lots of existing standards should be built upon already published work, where VIRTIO is the most prominent we have found, but it is not enough.  However as this field progresses it It is clear that the automotive industry needs to do more and that it should (will) one way or another make sure that different initiatives combine into commonalitycommon agreements. 

The project group has discussed and found consensus on how that automotive specification automotive virtual platform specification should be done:

• Principles of meta/delta-specification (formal specification with reference/reuse)

For such a an automotive virtualized platform virtio , VIRTIO is primarily a starting point because the defined devices enable running only basic system functionality but lack the multimedia and other devices often found in automotive environments.

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