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This paper describes the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) standards, specGCally the Application Programming Interface (API) Standards for Fault Management for use in a Real-Time Environment. This work is being pe~ormed by the Services for Reliable, Available, and Serviceable Systems (SRASS) Working Group (WG). This work is a (POSIX) standards efsort in the PI 003.1 System Services group project PI003.Ih.This standard is intended to be used to provide fault management and serviceability application programs a common C language binding inte @ace to operating system services. This standard is being developed using common and or existing practices within industry and academia to provide a useful set of fault management and serviceability APIs to benefit all. The working group is comprised of a balanced participation of users, vendors, and those with a general interest. All APIs are developed by using the consensus process and this work is intended to receive a through review in an open ballot process to insure that implementations can be built to conform to the standard.

This paper describes the top level of a mefa-model for fault management. This mefa-model can be used to help rejine existing terminology. It can also be used to formalize standard development strategies for fault management services. Diis work is the outgrowth of a modeling effort that was performed by the Services for Reliable, Available, and Serviceable Systems Working Gmip (SRASS WG) which has been meeting as part of the