To address issues and problems of software maintenance and required actions and procedures which can help organizations meet the growing demands of maintaining existing systems. Tools and techniques that may be used to improve the control of software maintenance activities are discusses. Managing the maintenance process and maintenance specific definitions will be included in the standard. In addition it will establish a correlation between the content of software maintenance plan as derfined in 1219 and the content of such plans as defined in IEEE 12207.1, Guide for Information Technology - Software Life Cycle Processes - Life Cycle Data by adding an annex which will correlate the assumptions relating to content of the two documents and trace content between subject documentation.