ECMA-xxx-VERS 1st Edition

The ECMA-xxx-VERS 1st Edition standard has been approved by Ecma Technical Committee 54 (TC54). It is pending approval by the Ecma General Assembly in December 2026 at which time it will be assigned a standard number in the format "ECMA-xxx".

The content of ECMA-xxx-VERS is a subset of the overall VERS specification but its content defines the normative standard. Some elements of the specification that are not currently included in ECMA-xxx-VERS 7 are the How-to guides, the VERS Test Schema, the VERS test cases, and the data for registered VERS type definitions.

A reference to the "VERS standard" is always a reference to ECMA-xxx-VERS. A reference to the "VERS specification" may refer to information from ECMA-xxx-VERS or from the broader VERS specification which is maintained in the vers-spec repository on GitHub.

The key elements of ECMA-xxx-VERS 1st Edition are:

• Introduction
• Clause 1 - Scope: A brief statement of the ECMA-xxx-VERS scope.
• Clause 2 - Conformance: This clause defines conformance to the VERS standard.
• Clause 3 - Normative References: This clause lists 3 external documents that are normative references for the VERS standard.
• Clause 4 - Overview: This is a non-normative overview of the VERS standard.
• Clause 5 - VERS Specification: This clause is the primary normative text for the VERS standard.
• Clause 6 - VERS Type Definition Schema: This clause is a human-friendly version of the JSON schema for VERS type definitions.
• Annex A - VERS Type Definition Schema: This annex provides a copy of the VERS Type Definition Schema: vers-type-definition.schema-1.0.json in JSON format.

The ECMA-xxx-VERS standard is maintained in the ECMA-xxx-VERS repository on GitHub.