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/*!

\page Introduction Introduction

\section purpose Purpose
The OEMs within the GENIVI Alliance have been discussing the concept of IVI profiles. The full
range of IVI products would be categorised into a number of profiles. A profile would describe
the “commodity” functionality within a product segment. Commodity is defined as functionality
that is common across the contributing OEMs or functionality that is delivered in a comparable
after market consumer device.

The creation of profiles is intended to provide a consistent product target for silicon vendors
and GENIVI platform distributors, enabling cost optimisation by the scaling of both the target
processor silicon and GENIVI platform distribution.

\image html ./doc/images/purpose_genivi.png Commodity feature and differentiation
\image latex ./doc/images/purpose_genivi.png Commodity feature and differentiation

This document identifies the areas of “commodity” features and provides a description of the
required functionality. The document will be maintained and further developed within the GENIVI
Strategy Council planning work group.

The GENIVI System Architecture Team (SAT) will use the profile descriptions to scope the technical capabilities
of the GENIVI platform. The decomposition / further detailing of this document will carried out
iteratively between the SC planning group and the SAT.

The commodity functionality within the profiles will describe the functionality to be supported
by the GENIVI Reference implementation.


\section purposeDocument Purpose of this document

This document contains the detailed design of the Layer Management Service component identified
with sufficient detail to allow coding of this component.

*/