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From: "John R. Strohm" <strohm@airmail.net>
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Subject: Documentation Standards
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 23:10:04 -0500
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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