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Functional Safety Standards Landscape: Signpost (pointers only)

This is a signpost, not a knowledge pack. It carries no source content: no reproduced clauses, no synthesised summaries of normative text. IEC 61508, ISO 26262, ISO/SAE 21434, UL 4600, SAE J3016, and ASPICE are Excluded under this repo's docs/SOURCE-VETTING.md (paywalled or no redistribution grant), so none of them can be reconstituted into a pack. What this skill does: tell you which functional safety standard you want, who owns it, whether it can be packaged, and where to get the authentic copy.

When to use

You need to identify, cite, or locate a functional safety standard (e.g. "the functional safety standard?" → IEC 61508; "the automotive variant?" → ISO 26262). This routes you to the authoritative source. The genuinely open paths in this catalogue are the mil-std-882 and nhtsa-vehicle packs (US Government practice, not equivalents of any excluded row).

Prerequisites: none. Plain Markdown.

How to use

Find your standard below. The Status column tells you whether it is redistributable:

• 🔴 Excluded: paywalled or no redistribution grant; buy/download from the owner. Cannot be packaged here.
• 🟢 Open: an installable pack exists (named in the row).

Where a licence permits citation, the owner's official catalogue page is given in the Status cell.

The standards

Designation	Edition to cite	Owner	Status	Open path
IEC 61508	IEC 61508-1:2010 as series anchor	IEC	🔴 Excluded. https://webstore.iec.ch/en/publication/5515	mil-std-882 (DoD system safety practice, not an IEC equivalent)
ISO 26262	2018 series; catalogue anchor ISO 26262-1:2018	ISO	🔴 Excluded. https://www.iso.org/standard/68383.html	mil-std-882; nhtsa-vehicle for US vehicle content
ISO/SAE 21434	2021	ISO/SAE	🔴 Excluded. https://www.iso.org/standard/70918.html	nhtsa-vehicle cyber chapter (US guidance, not 21434)
UL 4600	Evaluation of Autonomous Products	UL	🔴 Excluded. https://www.shopulstandards.com/ProductDetail.aspx?productId=UL4600	nhtsa-vehicle ADS chapter (US vision, not a UL evaluation)
SAE J3016	202104	SAE	🔴 Excluded. https://www.sae.org/standards/content/j3016_202104/	see automotive-signpost and nhtsa-vehicle; level definitions are not restated here
ASPICE PAM	4.0	VDA QMC	🔴 Excluded. https://vda-qmc.de/en/software-processes/automotive-spice/	none in this catalogue

fda-med-device is a live pack in this catalogue (FDA device software guidance and the QMSR). It is not an open path for IEC 61508, ISO 26262, or ISO/SAE 21434.

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Signpost content is original JG Systems Consulting Ltd. work, MIT licensed. Trademarks and standard designations are named for identification only.