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. Now that there are identical IEEE and ISO draft standards, there will be a joint revision to resolve the comments received.

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. A joint IEEE ISO revision will be undertaken to resolve the comments received.

Fast-Track Ballot Details

Document reference: ISO/IEC DIS 25961
Committee: ISO/IEC/JTC 1/SC 7
Ballot period: 2005-10-20 until 2006-03-20
Voting Results: P-Members voting: 16 in favour out of 17 = 94.11% (requirement is at least 66.66%)
(P-Members having abstained are not counted in this vote.)
Member bodies voting: 1 negative votes out of 23 = 4.34% (requirement must not exceed 25%)

Approved