BS ISO/IEC TR 14369:1999

Introduction
Background
Principles
1 Scope
2 References
3 Definitions and abbreviations
4 Overview
5 Guidelines on strategy
6 Guidelines on document organisation
7 Guidelines on terminology
8 Guideline on use of formal specification languages
9 Guidelines on interoperability
10 Guidelines on concurrency issues
11 Guidelines on the selection and specification of
      datatypes
12 Guidelines on specification of procedure calls
13 Guidelines on specification of fault handling
14 Guidelines on options and implementation dependence
15 Guidelines on conformity requirements
16 Guidelines on specifying a language binding to a
      language independent interface specification
17 Guidelines on revisions
Annex A - Brief guide to language-independent standards
      A.1 - Language-independent arithmetic
      A.2 - Language-independent datatypes
      A.3 - Language-independent procedure calling
Annex B - Glossary of language-independent terms
      B.1 - Source indications
      B.2 - Index of terms

Supplies guidelines to those implicated in the development of specifications of information technology services and their interfaces, meant to be used by clients of the services, especially by external applications not necessarily sharing the environment and assumptions of one particular programming language Does not deal fully or directly with all aspects of specifications but deals with those necessary for achievement of language independence, that is those needed to make a specification neutral regarding the language environment from where the service is invoked.