•General
applicability to the ship design process
•Short-term
technical and cost advantages or difficulties
•Mid-
and long-term cost savings or other implications
•Advantages/issues
of the interoperability requirements
•Usefulness
of the components of the repositories
•Legal
aspects to be solved (IPR)
•‘Growth
potential’ of the STANAG, i.e. applicability in view of future
developments
•Requirements
and options to extend the scope: further rules, standards, missing
components in the repositories
•Management
overhead required
•Overall
impact of the Virtual Ship to the ship acquisition process
