how to gather requirements

There are multiple ways in which one can gather requirements for the task of understanding and supervising the evolution of a sytem from the 10'000ft perspective as eric sais it.

distill requirements from informal interviews with individual experts
-- erik donnenburg
-- adi groza
-- reinout heeck
-- contact mihu and see if i can talk with anybody at siemens

find requirements in the literature
- i don't remember seing requirements for this level...

find requirements on discussions on the net
-- Tips for reading code on the c2 wiki Library calls, Search, ...
-- Discussion on slashdot on how do you reverse engineer half a million lines of c/c++ code.


a formal survey
- survey separately[ the researchers and ask what do they thing is useful. then survey the potential users and see what *they* think it is helfpul.