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Configuration management dictates that each GEMS
release have a unique release number. This is not done just for
certification purposes but also for development, support and production
purposes. When a request, whether it be a bug report, support question, or
shipping request, is made it must be possible to uniquely identify the release
of GEMS being referred to.
Therefore the only way to have "the export of data
fall outside of a specific GEMS release" would be to make the export of data a
separate program. This would entail a major amount of work since this
program would to deal wit security, audit, versioning, and other issues that are
already dealt with in GEMS. Therefore this is not a viable
option.
Furthermore is it not states that are asking for
export data and are not the states the people who certify the software?
Therefore if a state requests changes, whether it is for export or otherwise,
our response should be "if we implement these changes this we be a new release
and you (the state) will need to certify it." It then becomes the states
decision, not ours, as to whether to proceed.
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