Welcome to the IEEE 1471 Website
This is the website for IEEE Std 1471–2000, Recommended Practice for Architectural Description of Software-intensive Systems, which is now also ISO/IEC 42010:2007
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What's New?
22 May 2009 Collected comments on ISO/IEC WD4 42010 (IEEE P42010/D6) [PDF]
13 May 2009 Happy birthday, IEEE!
3 May 2009 Updated the ISO/IEC 42010/IEEE 1471 bibliography in the Reading room.
24 April 2009 New example architecture description (AD) added to Applications, courtesy of Tim O'Neill, Avolution.
2 April 2009 The IEEE first ballot of P42010/D6 began today. Ballots are due 2 May 2009. Parties not involved in the IEEE or ISO balloting are welcomed to submit comments on the current draft. Please use ISO's comment form.
17 February 2009 The ISO CD Registration ballot began today. The 3 month ballot will close 17 May, in time to collect comments for the Delhi meeting.
18 January 2009 The newest draft, ISO/IEC WD4 42010 (= IEEE P42010/D6), will be balloted in parallel by ISO and IEEE. Instructions for joining IEEE ballot group.
17 October 2008 Added an area in the Reading Room for presentations about IEEE 1471 | ISO/IEC 42010.
14 September 2008 ISO/IEC WD3 42010 is available for download from the reviewers page.
25 August 2008 Updated events calendar. Updated IEEE 1471 bibliography. Added page on "Applying the standard".
8 June 2008 ISO JTC1/SC7 WG 42 met in Berlin, 18–23 May 2008. Part of the meeting was a joint session with ISO TC 184/SC 5/WG 1 — Architecture and modelling, for the purpose of harmonizing ISO/IEC 42010 with the GERAM standards. RM-ODP was also represented. WG42 also worked on disposition of comments received on WD2. Comments disposition and the next 42010 draft will be available in July.
6 March 2008 Working draft 2 (WD2) of joint ISO and IEEE revision available for review.
8 February 2008 WICSA 2008 will include three sessions related to ISO/IEC 42010, focusing on three revision topics: architecture frameworks, review of architectural descriptions and capturing relations between views. See: Calendar.
11 December 2007 Jim Moore has been awarded the IEEE Standards Association's 2007 International Award for his "considerable contribution to the IEEE Computer Society Software and Systems Engineering Standards Collection (S2ESC) and the international collection of software engineering standards supported by ISO/IEC".
Jim has been an invaluable advisor, supporter and advocate for IEEE 1471 throughout its development, he was instrumental in its adoption by ISO and continues to help the evolution of the standard in numerous ways. Congratulations, Jim!
For more information see: IEEE press release.
13 October 2007 Updated the IEEE 1471 bibliography (now version 1.2); added a page about the conceptual framework (or "frame of reference" or "metamodel").
WD1 Commenting
1 October 2007 Added links to commenting template (Excel) and ISO commenting guidelines (pdf) for IEEE reviewers who are commenting on ISO/IEC WD1 42010. Comments received by 28 October 2007 can be discussed at the next WG 42 meeting in Montreal.
ISO publishes ISO/IEC 42010:2007
10 July 2007 ISO has published ISO/IEC 42010:2007, Systems and software engineering — Recommended practice for architectural description of software-intensive systems. The text of this ISO standard is identical to IEEE 1471:2000, and will serve as basis for the joint ISO and IEEE revision.
Website Renovation
9 June 2007 Website is being renovated to eliminate use of frames. There are probably still some bugs. Contact webmaster to report.
Call for Reviewers
8 June 2007 The first draft of the joint ISO and IEEE revision, WD1, will be ready in early July. If you would like to receive WD1 and future drafts, join the IEEE reviewers group.
WG 42 Meets in Moscow
25 May 2007 ISO/IEC SC 7/WG 42 met in Moscow during the SC7 Plenary meeting. Topics discussed included: alignment with ISO 15288 and ISO 12207, standardization of architecture frameworks, architecture evaluation, RM-ODP, GERAM. The group analyzed comments from the fast-track ballot which had been deferred for the revision, and a set of comments from INCOSE UK.
New Website
7 Dec 2006 Rehosted the IEEE 1471 website. Thanks to DSCI for these resources, and a special thank you to Pithecanthropus Consulting for many years of support in hosting the IEEE 1471 site.
First Meeting of WG 42
1 Dec 2006 The first meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 Working Group 42 took place in Seoul, Republic of Korea, 30 Oct–3 Nov 2006. All comments on fast-track ballot were examined and deferred to the joint revision; the standard will now be published as ISO/IEC 42010 Systems and Software Engineering — Architectural Description. More
Revision to be performed by WG 42
6 July 2006 IEEE 1471, now also an ISO Draft International Standard (DIS), Recommended Practice for Architectural Description of Software-Intensive Systems, will be jointly revised by IEEE and ISO. ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 has proposed that the revision be undertaken by a new working group, auspiciously designated "Working Group (WG) 42". More
Fast-Track Ballot of IEEE 1471 Approved by ISO
30 March 2006 Following a five-month fast-track ballot by ISO/IEC/JTC 1/SC 7, IEEE 1471 has been approved as a ISO/IEC Draft International Standard. Now that there are identical IEEE and ISO draft standards, there will be a joint revision to resolve the comments received. More
IEEE 1471 becomes ANSI Standard
7 August 2001 ANSI adopts IEEE 1471 an American National Standard. [Press release]
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