IEEE Recommended Practice for Architectural Description for Software-Intensive Systems

" This recommended practice addresses the activities of the creation, analysis, and sus-tainment of architectures of software-intensive systems, and the recording of such architectures interms of architectural descriptions . A conceptual framework for architectural description is estab-lished. The content of an architectural description is defined. Annexes provide the rationale for keyconcepts and terminology, the relationships to other standards, and examples of usage. "