Re: Documentation Standards

[Mark Johnson <mark_h_johnson@raytheon.com>]

"John R. Strohm" wrote:

> Back in the Middle Ages of military software development, we had
> DOD-STD-2167A and all the related Data Item Descriptions.  It used to be
> possible to go out on the Web and download a full set of same, or you could
> get it from your friendly neighborhood company specifications and standards
> library.  (I went through that exercise, a few times, with MIL-STD-1679,
> DOD-STD-2167, and DOD-STD-2167A.)
>
> Last I heard, DOD-STD-2167A had been dropped, and the successor project,
> DOD-STD-SDS, was terminated, with the idea being instead to use equivalent
> commercial specification standards.
>
> Does anyone know what the "equivalent" standards are, and where I can scrape
> up a set, and how much it will cost me?  ("Free" is a very good answer: this
> is something I'm doing on my own, rather than something my employer wants me
> to spend time and money doing.)
>
> Alternatively, if anyone can point me at a bootleg site with the full set
> for DOD-STD-2167A, i.e., the standard and all the related DIDs, that would
> also be good.
>
> Thanks for all answers.
>
> --John R. Strohm

A couple minute search using Altavista found a copy of the following "notice of
cancellation" for MIL-STD-498 (the successor to 2167A). As mentioned below, the
IEEE has current standards that you can purchase, subscribe to, etc. I doubt
the pricing is current :-).
  --Mark
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Notice of
      Cancellation
                                     IEEE/EIA 12207 Standard for
                                     Software Life Cycle Processing

MIL-STD-498

Notice 1

May 27, 1998


      MIL-STD-498, dated 5 December 1994 has been cancelled as of May 27, 1998.
Information regarding software development and
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