Methods other than those in the document may provide hardware design assurance if they can be shown to satisfy the applicable regulations, and they need certification authority approval before use. When evaluated against this document, an alternative should show an equivalent level of assurance for the Section 2 to 9 objectives it replaces, have its effect on those objectives and on the life cycle data assessed, and be backed by evidence that it will produce the expected results.
The graph holds this control, the 0 it maps to, and the evidence behind each claim, over MCP and REST.