A novel approach to qualitative spatial reasoning about the spatial configuration of mechanism is presented that could be applied to estimate if the mechanism design is reasonable in the early phases.

Because each of these customers may do business differently, an NMS must have a highly adaptable configuration mechanism and user interface to satisfy the diverse needs of its customers.

In V6, this has been replaced by a channel framework based configuration, which is a much more flexible mechanism for supporting the input and output of transport end points.