ĪNSI/EIA-649B is currently owned by SAE International, a U.S.-based, globally active professional association and standards organization for engineering professionals in various industries. The knowledge contained in EIA-649 is intended to assist in establishing, performing, and/or evaluating CM systems ĪNSI/EIA-649, along with all updated versions to this standard, defines and explains the five primary functions or elements of configuration management: CM Planning, Configuration Identification, change management, status accounting, and verification & audit.

In addition to standardizing the understanding of configuration management, EIA-649 provides a rational basis upon which to apply good judgment in both planning for and executing CM across the enterprise. This, along with its neutral terminology, allows the standard to be applied in a variety of environments - governmental, industrial, and commercial Instead, this document provides a standardized definition and explanation for configuration management (CM) while also providing the rationale for the various CM processes. Their goal was to address overall requirements, principles, and best practices in configuration management without mandating the use of specific terminology or approaches on how configuration management (CM) should be implemented in any particular environment. 6 About EIA-649-1, -2 and Future 'Dash' seriesĪNSI/EIA-649 was developed in 1994, when the Electronic Industries Alliance’s (EIA) G-33 Committee on Data and Configuration Management initiated a task to develop an industry Configuration Management standard.2 EIA-649's International Standardization.

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