Standards Activity Update
Article by: Phil Zimmerman  (ZimmermanPM@navair.navy.mil) The SAC is responsible for overseeing the development of standards and products that support interoperable simulation. Currently simulation interoperability standards can be developed through SISO or IEEE but the SAC is currently researching other avenues and organizations that SISO could work with to develop standards. Some of the organizations that SISO is looking at are ANSI and ISO as well as other sub-committees. More information on this effort will be posted on the SAC-COM reflector. To subscribe to this reflector go to http://www.sisostds.org/ and select "Reflectors"   SISO has standards activities in the following areas: RPR FOM Balloting The Ballot Group for the balloting of the RPR FOM has been approved and the version 0.9 of the RPR FOM has been posted for balloting. The RPR FOM is comprised of two documents: the FOM itself and the "Guidance, Rational, and Interoperability Modalities" (GRIM) document. Members of the Ballot Group, made up of 73 members, will have 30 days to review and vote on approving the documents. The RPR FPM group will be the first group to use the SISO Comment Tracking System (CTS) to ballot a standard.   The SAC is working with the SISO Conference Committee to oversee study in the following areas: Fidelity The Fidelity Implementation Study Group (Fidelity ISG) completed their final report and presented it at the 1999 Spring SIW. The Fidelity ISG was chartered to develop: 1.A lexicon for simulation fidelity terms and concepts. 2.A contextual framework related those terms and concepts and simulation theory. 3.A set of methods and metric by which fidelity is defined, estimated, and measured. All of these items can be found in the "Report from the Fidelity Implementation Study Group" at URL http://www.sisostds.org/doclib/doclib.cfm?SISO_FID_2299   The Fidelity Study Group recently requested to continue their efforts in this area by forming a new Study group called the Implementation Study Group on Fidelity Experimentation (ISG-FEX). This group recognizes that the ability to describe and quantify simulation fidelity or ``goodness`` appropriately will be essential for effective use of the HLA and support of endeavors such as Simulation Based Acquisition. More information about the continuing effort in Fidelity can be found at http://www.sisostds.org/stdsdev/fidelity/index.htm     RTI Interoperability Study Group The RTI Interoperability Study Group has completed their initial work and included this information in a tri-fold that was published and available at the 1999 Spring SIW. The information in this tri-fold is also available on-line at http://www.sisostds.org/stdsdev/rti/index.htm. This group plans to continue their efforts in this area with a final report due at the 1999 Fall SIW.   Two other areas that are currently forming are the Sedris effort and the C4ISR Study Group. The Sedris effort currently has submitted two Standards Nominations that have been posted for community review. Look for more information on this effort in the near future.   Implementation Study Group on C4I Interfaces The SAC is still working with the C4I Implementation Study Group to finalize their C4I Study Group Terms of Reference. As stated in the Proposed C4I TOR; the organizers see a "need for a unified approach for development of C4I-to-simulation interfaces available to developers who are following and applying the Federation Development Process (FEDEP) to the development of C4ISR federations." This study group is discussing the development of a C4I Interface Technical Reference Model that could provide a standard approach to interfacing C4I to simulations.
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