| International
Electrotechnical Commission |
The International
Electro-technical Commission publishes a number
of key safety standards, including IEC 61508,
the bible for functional safety of electrical/electronic
and programmable electronic systems, as well as
draft standards such as IEC 61511, the process
chemical sector variant of 61508.
A discussion about IEC 61508, its acceptability
and certification took place in 1999 in the Safety-Critical
Mailing list It was summarised and there is
a digest
of this discussion .
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| CENELEC
|
CENELEC
is the European electro-technical standards group
responsible for safety standards in the railway
sector such as EN 50126 (dependability), EN50128
(software) and EN 50129 (Assurance). |
| BSI
|
The British
Standards Institute (BSI) is responsible for
publishing national standards in the UK. Some of
these may include the national interpretation of
an EU standard. Key standards include BS EN 9001
and PD 2000, the Year 2000 compliance definition
standard. |
| ANSI
|
The American
National Standards Institute brings together
consensus groups to develop US standards. This site
lists work in progress, usually a good pointer to
up-and-coming issues. |
| UK
MoD Standards |
UK
Ministry of Defence Standards can be found at
this site. Standards of interest include DEF STAN
00-55, 00-56 and 00-58. Other standards available
at the site include those referring to key safety
engineering tasks such as Configuration Management.
|
| IEEE
|
The predominantly US based, Institute
of Electrical and Electronic Engineers has a
very active standards generating function. There
is good information on this site regarding systems
engineering initiatives. |
| RTCA,
Inc. |
RTCA,
Inc. is a private, not-for-profit corporation
that develops consensus-based recommendations regarding
communications, navigation, surveillance, and air
traffic management (CNS/ATM) system issues. RTCA
functions as an American federal advisory committee.
DO-178B, software for avionics, is the item of interest
at this site. |
| CEN
|
CEN
is the European standards body responsible for all
non electro-technical standards. |
| ETSI |
The European
Telecom Standards Institute publishes European
standards for telecom systems and concepts. |
