Anyone familiar with the new IEEE standard 1636-2009?
IEEE trial-use standard for software interface for maintenance information collection and analysis (SIMICA)
This document provides an implementation-independent specification for a software interface to information systems containing data pertinent to the diagnosis and maintenance of complex systems consisting of hardware, software, or any combination thereof. These interfaces will support service definitions for creating application programming interfaces (API) for the access, exchange, and analysis of historical diagnostic and maintenance information. This will address the pervasive need of organizations to assess the effectiveness of diagnostics for complex systems throughout the product life cycle. The use of formal information models will facilitate exchanging historical maintenance information between information systems and analysis tools. The models will facilitate creating open system software architectures for maturing system diagnostics.
It's only US$72 and I can get my company to order a copy, but I'm just curious about the context of it, and whether it might be useful to embedded applications or if it's just meant for large PC-based systems that have TCP/IP access.
(edit: and more importantly, what do I get if I follow the standard? is there software out there already to make use of it?)