Editing Distributed Interactive Simulation (section)

==History==
The standard was developed over a series of "DIS Workshops" at the Interactive Networked Simulation for Training symposium, held by the [[University of Central Florida|University of Central Florida's]] [[Institute for Simulation and Training]] (IST). The standard itself is very closely patterned after the original [[SIMNET]] distributed interactive simulation protocol, developed by [[Bolt, Beranek and Newman]] (BBN) for [[DARPA|Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA)]] in the early through late 1980s. BBN introduced the concept of [[dead reckoning]] to efficiently transmit the state of battle field entities.

In the early 1990s, IST was contracted by the United States [[DARPA|Defense Advanced Research Project Agency]] to undertake research in support of the [[United States Army|US Army]] Simulator Network (SimNet) program. Funding and research interest for DIS standards development decreased following the proposal and promulgation of its successor, the [[High Level Architecture (simulation)]] (HLA) in 1996. HLA was produced by the merger of the DIS protocol with the [[Aggregate Level Simulation Protocol]] (ALSP) designed by [[MITRE]].

There was a [[NATO]] standardisation agreement ([[STANAG]] 4482, ''Standardised Information Technology Protocols for Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS)'', adopted in 1995) on DIS for modelling and simulation interoperability. This was retired in favour of HLA in 1998 and officially cancelled in 2010<!-- 05 July --> by the [[NATO Standardization Agency]] (NSA).