Policies, Standards, and Specifications
Governance Policies and Associated Documents
| SWIM Governance Policies Version 3.1 (February 6, 2020) (PDF) | Specifies the policies, rules, and standards for identifying, designing, implementing, deploying, and managing the resources, assets, and processes that are enabled and/or supported by the SWIM program. |
| SWIM Governance Policies Waiver Request (PDF) | The template for requesting a waiver from SWIM Governance. |
| SWIM SCDS General Guideline with Standards Version 1.1 (PDF) | System Wide Information Management (SWIM) SWIM Cloud Distribution Service (SCDS) General Guideline with Standards Version 1.1 |
Standards and Specifications
Current
| FAA-STD-065 Rev. B, Preparation of Web Service Description Documents (July 15, 2019) (PDF) | Specifies the minimum acceptable content for preparing FAA Web Service Description Documents (WSDD). |
| FAA-STD-073A, Preparation of Java Messaging Service Description Documents (December 9, 2019) (PDF) | Specifies the minimum acceptable content for preparing FAA Java Messaging Service Description Documents (JMSDD) |
| FAA-STD-074, Preparation of Service Requirements Documents (July 20, 2020) (PDF) | Specifies the minimum acceptable content for preparing solution-independent Service Requirements Documents (SRD). |
| FAA-STD-075, Creating Service Identifiers (June 29, 2021) (PDF) | Specifies requirements for creating globally-unique, persistent http URI-based identifiers for FAA services. |
| SWIM-005, Artifacts Versioning for SWIM-enabled Services, Software Specification, Version 1.0.0 (December 18, 2015) (PDF) |
Provides requirements and guidelines for versioning SWIM-enabled services and their associated artifacts. |
| How to Write a Service Requirements Document (February 11, 2021) (PDF) | An instructional example of a set of service requirements developed as prescribed by FAA-STD-074. The example SRD contains requirements for a fictitious "Flight Plan Service (FPS)" used to file and modify a flight plan. |
| SWIM-002, Syntax and Processing of XML-Based Documents in the Context of SWIM-Enabled Services, Software Specification, Version 1.0 (June 16, 2015) (PDF) | Provides requirements and guidelines for the preparation and publishing of XML-based documents intended for use in the context of FAA's SWIM program. |
Superseded or Retired
| FAA-STD-065 Rev. A, Preparation of Web Service Description Documents (July 1, 2013) [Superseded by Revision B] (PDF) | Specifies the minimum acceptable content for preparing FAA Web Service Description Documents (WSDD). |
| FAA-STD-070, Preparation of Web Service Requirements Documents (July 12, 2012) [Superseded by FAA-STD-074] (PDF) | Specifies the minimum acceptable content for preparing FAA Web Service Requirements Documents (WSRD). |
| FAA-STD-073, Preparation of Java Messaging Service Description Documents (January 29, 2014) [Superseded by Revision A] (PDF) | Specifies the minimum acceptable content for preparing FAA Java Messaging Service Description Documents (JMSDD) |
Last updated: Tuesday, March 18, 2025