- Meeting Details: Safety-Critical Consortium Meeting on 19 February 2025 in London.
- Recording & Privacy: Decided not to record video/audio; Chatham House rules apply.
- Membership Status: Currently 109 members; discussion on maintaining a low-friction join process while continuing to vet new member legitimacy.
- Coding Guidelines: Focus on drafting guidelines, starter project of “Learn Unsafe Rust” chapters contribution, aliged on standards mapping as an appendix item, north star to be safe use of Rust, useful patterns for eliminating safety issues, with standards compliance as a second-order effect of following the guidelines (mapped in appendix).
- Mapping to Standards: Discussed referencing standards (MISRA, CERT, etc.) via a traceability matrix and ensuring fair use of standards references.
- Liaison Working Group: Identified a need for a working group to liaise with external standards bodies and other organizations.
- Tooling: Discussed the development of mapping safety-critical requirements to standards items (e.g. DO-178, ISO26262) and addressing tooling gaps as well as the scope of the tooling working group in terms of build vs buy vs upstream.
- Collaboration with the Project: Discussed how to increase fruitful coordination with the Rust Project and how to decide when to upstream versus develop separately.
- Funding & Reporting: Explored using the Foundation for collective funding and potentially publishing a regular state of safety critical Rust report.
- Evangelism: Proposed creating a questionnaire for us to feed data into "Why Use Rust?" efforts.
- Rust Spec Update: Ferrous Systems has committed to contribute the FLS to the Rust Project with integration into the Rust spec initiative as a goal for this year.
- Next Steps & Feedback: Positive feedback on the unified consortium session; plan to meet at RustNL/Rust Week in May.