IEEE Begins Work on New Standards for LANs and
C++ Language Interfaces
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Karen McCabe, IEEE-SA Marketing Director
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PISCATAWAY, N.J., USA, 21 March 2008 -- IEEE has launched projects to create standards for Local Area Networks (LANs) and C++ language interfaces, and has reaffirmed a standard guiding Concept of Operations documents. IEEE has begun work on IEEE P1733™, "Standard for Layer 3 Transport Protocol for Time Sensitive Applications in Local Area Networks." This standard will facilitate interoperability between stations that stream time-sensitive audio and/or video across bridged and routed LANs providing time synchronization and latency/bandwidth services by defining the packet format and stream setup, control, synchronization and teardown protocols by leveraging Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) family of protocols and IEEE 802.1™ AVB protocols.
IEEE has also begun work on IEEE P1003.27™, "Standard for Information Technology - POSIX® C++ Language Interfaces - Binding for System Application Program Interface (API)." This standard will provide a single, recommended method to allow portable C++ applications to make use of the POSIX standard interfaces, which will help to discourage the currently diverging practices in the industry which lead to poor design choices, inefficiencies, and incompatibilities.
IEEE has also reaffirmed IEEE 1362-1998™, "IEEE Guide for Information Technology - System Definition - Concept of Operations (ConOps) Document." A ConOps is a user-oriented document that describes system characteristics for a proposed system from the users' viewpoint. The ConOps document is used to communicate the overall quantitative and qualitative system characteristics to the user, buyer, developer and other organizational elements (e.g. training, facilities, staffing and maintenance). It is used to describe the user organization(s), mission(s) and organizational objectives from an integrated systems point of view.
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