This Recommendation/International Standard: provides an overview to the family of systems management standards; establishes the basis for partitioning the systems management standards into separate groups, specifiing the scope of each group and identifjing the principal components within each group;gives guidance on the development of systems management standards and identifies the way they relate to each other; defines terms for use by other systems management standards;is applicable to the definition of all systems management standards and to all aspects of systems management of whatever scale;is applicable to situations in which the responsibility for systems management is centralized and those where it is decentralized;establishes a model for systems management, identifies several aspects of systems management (i.e.information, functional, communications, and organizational), and further refines the model to clarifj these aspects;identifies the principles governing conformance requirements and conformance claims to systems management standards.