Standards
Standards Products are formally approved items that reflect consensus agreements on products, practices, or operations, as required, by simulation industry applications. SISO Standards are to be stable, well understood, technically competent, and have multiple independent interoperable implementations. In addition they should enjoy significant public support, and be recognizably useful in some or all parts of the simulation community. Compliance with a SISO Standard requires conformance with all of the “shalls” of the Product Principles:

Generality
Standards Products shall be as general as possible, while still maintaining usefulness, to support the broadest community of current and future users. 		Stability
Standards Products shall be established and changed only as necessary.  They shall be prototyped and tested before being proposed for adoption to demonstrate their maturity. 		Supportability
Standards Products shall maintain the integrity of the existing product suite and the needs of the user.


The following are the three types of standards SISO is involved in:

IEEE Standards

In 2003, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society Standards Activities Board voted unanimously to grant the SISO Standards Activities Committee (SAC) status as a recognized IEEE Sponsor Committee.

IEEE Standards are the property of IEEE and must be purchased from that organization, however, 
SISO Members do have exclusive access to the IEEE site and can view over 2.7 million documents housed by them.

SISO now maintains three families of IEEE standards: IEEE 1278 (Distributed Interactive Simulation),  IEEE 1516 (High Level Architecture for Modeling and Simulation), and IEEE 1730 (Distributed Simulation Engineering and Execution Process). These standards were initially developed by members of the DIS/SISO organization acting as a subcommittee of the IEEE Computer Society SAB.
SISO Standards

The Product Development Activity of SISO seeks to provide an environment for the development of products to support the interoperability and reuse of distributed simulations. Learn more about the Standards Activity Committee - the committee that oversees the development of SISO Products.

SISO also has as a wide range of:

SISO Standards

Reference Documents

Administrative Documents

As part of its support, SISO provides quick-turnaround responses to requests for interpretation or guidance in the use of these standards.

Also listed, under the Development Groups, are 11 potential standards currently under development, and under Study Groups, another 9 efforts aimed at making recommendations regarding other possible standards.
ISO Standards

SISO maintains a Liaison Member relationship with Sub-committee 24 (SC 24) of the Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC 1) of ISO/IEC.  The collection of standards produced and published by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 can be found at the ISO's Products web site.

Previously, SISO provided a forum for the M&S Community to participate in the discussions, development, and standards material reviews for two of the eight SEDRIS standards, which were successfully published by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24.

Currently, SISO provides a forum for the post standardization support of the ISO/IEC Standards.