ABSTRACT
“Standard” can be used as a noun or an adjective. An introduction usually begins a standard wherein are contained the development and evolution background, compliance, document organization, and acknowledgments. Standards usually evolve from one or more entities developing a way of defining, doing, or characterizing something. Standards are usually developed to eliminate understandings between entities. “Standardization has always been about ensuring interoperability: a fundamental objective of all stakeholders be they policy-makers, industrial players or users”. Standards are organizational, market, professional, industry, national, or international. Standards management is highly dependent upon the standards organization or other entity responsible for initially developing and/or implementing the standard. Standards, as with any other component of the system-of-systems (SoS) journey, must be considered in the early stages. As with contemporary standards, SoS standards will be both generic and specific. The need for SoS standards is evident from the SoS literature, where definitions and perspectives are presented with great variability.
