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, specifying the scope of each group and identifying 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 clarify these aspects; – identifies the principles governing conformance requirements and conformance claims to systems management standards.