Principles of Development for Standards Processing

For engineering systems of the size and complexity envisioned in the near future, designs will need to satisfy standards and regulations from multiple disciplines. The principles that will drive this development are as follows. There needs to be a clean separation of the design environment from the suite of programs that checks the conformance of a design to multiple design standards. Because design standards evolve over time, the standard processing program that models, executes and interprets multiple standards should be decoupled from the standards themselves.