How AIDM is used to develop Standards
The Airline Industry Data Model (AIDM) methodology defines an agile, model driven approach to building modern data exchange standards under the Passenger Standards Conference.
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There are five stages in the methodology, including initiation, business requirements and modeling, logical and physical modeling, schema generation and validation, and implementation. Business and technical groups work together in order to build the necessary messages to support the standard.
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There are four key roles involved in data exchange standard development – the Initiator, Business Group, Technology Group and the Boards jointly approving the standards
Initiator
Any organization can request a new standard or change to an existing standard under the Conference. Note that only IATA members and strategic partners may attend the Boards and Groups developing and endorsing the standard.
Business Group
Comprised of airlines and strategic partners responsible for developing the business requirements for a standard. All data exchange standards must have a business owning group.
Technology Group
Comprised of airlines and strategic partners responsible for supporting Business Groups with the development of technical solutions (models, messages, etc.).
Boards
Joint endorsement between the business owning Board and the Architecture and Technology Strategy Board is required before any new data exchange standard or change to a data exchange standard is effective.
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Using agile development cycles, Groups can generate alpha and beta releases at any point throughout the development cycle in order to have full visibility on the nature of changes impacting the messages much earlier in the process before a major release point
Want to know more about IATA Development of Standards, visit our IATA.org page How Data Standards are being developed and Adopted
Want to know where to access latest IATA Standards deliverables, go to page IATA Standards Deliverables for Data Messages Standards