Requirements management has been an integral part of the development process in various industries (especially in the military, aeronautical, or the medical device industry) for years. Other industries have been adopting requirements management recently.

This document is created to inform:

• Persons interested in exchanging requirements data between organizations that do not have a possibility to share the same repository (See Clause 4 for a definition of “repository”).
• Requirements authoring tool vendors who want to support the Requirements Interchange Format (ReqIF) with export and import interfaces for their requirements authoring tools. See Clause 4 for a definition of “requirements authoring tool.”
• Tool vendors other than requirements authoring tool vendors who wish to interchange requirements for documentation or other purposes.
• Anyone interested in defining, interchanging, storing, etc., requirements in a standard interchange format.