Re: 2167A, 498, commercial and mil standards...

[bbalfour@acm.org (Brad Balfour)]

In article <3gaudl$89q@michp1.redstone.army.mil>,
helliott@losat.redstone.army.mil (Doc Elliott) wrote:

> Based on recent postings here in cla, there is a lot of uncertainty in 
> the area of Military, DoD, etc standards and their application.  I 
> suspect that there are also a lot of unanaswered questions on both sides 
> of the fence regarding various applicable commercial standards.  Is there 
> a newsgroup which addresses this?

No there is not.

>Should there be?  Is there a need out 
> there for an information source where you could ask questions like "What 
> standards are there which apply to RF message formats?" as well as 
> questions like "In paragraph X.Y.Z of MIL-STD-498, what is the general 
> interpretation of the term 'procedure'?"  Wouldn't it be useful to have a 
> readily available FAQ or WWW host that listed sources (electronic and 
> otherwise) for all sorts of standards, specs, and the email addresses of 
> the greybeards involved in their development?

There is a WWW host and an ACM SIGAda working group which are devoted to
this issue and who have been working on it for many years. The following
is from the ACM SIGAda SDSAWG home page
<http://info.acm.org/sigada/wg/sdsawg.html/> which can be found on the ACM
SIGAda WWW Server <http://info.acm.org/sigada/>

          Software Development Standards and Ada (SDSAWG)

This WG's objectives are to discover where software-development standards
block good Ada software-development practices and to identify and
recommend corrections and work-arounds for hose blocks. Many reports
document SDSAWG's results, and it provides a clearinghouse service to make
these and draft standards available. 

For additional information contact:

Lewis Gray
Ada PROS, Inc.
12224 Grassy Hill Ct.
Fairfax, VA 22033-2819
703/591-5247 Voice
SDSAWG@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us


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