History

ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 was approved for use and published in 2011. The Standard was the product of joint development by ISO and IEEE to revise IEEE Std 1471:2000, following the fast-track adoption of the IEEE Standard by ISO in 2006.

In 1995, the IEEE Architecture Planning Group (APG) was chartered by the IEEE Software Engineering Standards Committee (note: SESC is now S2ESC – Software and Systems Engineering Standards Committee) to set the direction for the next generation of architecture-related standards and practices for the IEEE.

• IEEE APG Charter, approved by SESC, 20 August 1995.
• IEEE APG Action Plan [PDF]. The Action Plan was the primary result of the APG deliberations, making recommendations to SESC to undertake the development of a recommended practice (a "recommended practice" is one form of IEEE standard) for architectural description.
• IEEE Architecture Planning Group, Toward a Recommended Practice for Architectural Description [PDF]. This paper, presented at the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, in 1996, provides the rationale and background for the APG's recommendations to IEEE SESC.

The IEEE Architecture Working Group (AWG) was formed from the earlier planning group. The AWG was responsible for implementing the APG's recommendations and chartered with developing IEEE 1471, Recommended Practice for Architectural Description.

• Design Specification for IEEE 1471 [PDF]. The Design Specification reflects AWG's "contract" with its sponsor, IEEE Software Engineering Standards Committee (SESC) on the form and content of the standard. Approved by SESC, 22 August 1997.
• Introducing IEEE P1471 [PDF]. A brief introduction to IEEE P1471, vintage April 1999.
• 1 March 1999 The first ballot on IEEE P1471 closed. [See First Ballot Status]
• October 1998 P1471 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), version 1 released. Current version: IEEE 1471 FAQ. Questions and answers about IEEE 1471 in the FAQ style.
• November 1999 Ballot resolution on IEEE P1471/4.1 has been completed. A revised version 5.2 has been prepared, addressing all open issues. This version will be distributed to the ballot group. Anyone else can request it from the AWG.
• 20 June 2000 NESCOM approved the (revised) P1471 PAR, with the following administrative changes:
  • Title changed to: Recommended Practice for Architectural Description for Software Intensive ystems.
  • Scope and Purpose changed to match Scope and Purpose language from REVCOM submission.
• 22 September 2000 Basil Sherlund, the Architecture Working Group chair, informed AWG that IEEE Std 1471 was approved by the IEEE Standards Board today. The Standard will be published tomorrow. Camera-ready copy has been prepared by the project editor, and reviewed by the AWG technical editor.
• 22 October 2000 Press release on publication of IEEE-Std-1471-2000.
• 11 January 2001 IEEE Std 1471 User Group is formed, as an open forum for discussion of IEEE 1471 usage.
• March 2001 IEEE 1471 has been submitted to ANSI for approval as an American National Standard. This submission is routine for all IEEE standards.
• April 2001 "Introducing IEEE 1471", by Mark Maier, David Emery and Rich Hilliard, appears in IEEE Computer, volume 34, number 4 (April 2001).
• 7 August 2001 ANSI makes IEEE 1471 an American National Standard. [Press release]
• 8 July 2005 IEEE 1471 could become an ISO standard. ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 requested it be submitted for their examination. This has been completed. Now, IEEE is submitting the document to JTC1 for a fast-track ballot. The current idea is that ISO would adopt IEEE 1471 following the ballot and that there would then be a joint IEEE and ISO coordinated revision. The revision would address integration of IEEE 1471 into the ISO and IEEE software and systems engineering life cycles, and its coordination with related standards, such as ISO RM-ODP (Reference Model for Open Distributed Processing) and ISO GERAM (Enterprise Architecture standards), and other topics.
• 30 March 2006 Following a five-month fast-track ballot by ISO/IEC/JTC 1/SC 7, ISO/IEC Draft International Standard 25961, Recommended Practice for Architectural Description of Software-Intensive Systems (Pratique recommandée pour la description architecturale des systèmes exigeant beaucoup de logiciels) was approved with comments. ISO/IEC DIS 25961 is the international version of ANSI/IEEE Std 1471. ISO and IEEE will undertake a revision to resolve the comments received.

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