standards. Since the number and importance of the standards grew steadily, ASAM e.V. was founded on Dec. 1st, 1998 in Stuttgart/Germany as the legal entity that owns and distributes the standards. Chronology 1998: Founding of ASAM e.V. as a registered association by 26 founding members. First chairman came from DaimlerChrysler. First business manager was sent by BMW. 1999: First release of ASAM ACI. First regional ASAM interest group in the USA. 2000: First public release of ASAM MCD-2 D (ODX). 2001: First ASAM Techday in the USA at DaimlerChrysler in Auburn Hills, MI. 2002: First release of ASAM CEA.Incorporation of MSR standards into ASAM. 2003: Number of members surpassed the one hundred mark and included companies from the USA, Japan, France and Sweden. First release of ASAM MCD-3. 2004: First cross-testing event organized by ASAM. ASAM ODS tool vendors carry out interoperability tests with their products. Event hosted by GM in Detroit. BoD decision to freeze all standards at their current version for 18 month to help tool vendors to develop ASAM-compliant tools. First release of ASAM MCD-2 NET (FIBEX). ASAM ODS 5.0 has been accepted by ISO and published as ISO 22720. 2005: Founding of ASAM LLC as the regional representation of ASAM in the USA. 2006: First ASAM Solutions Guide published, containing case studies and a directory of ASAM members and products. First release of ASAM CDF. First release of ASAM MDX. First release of ASAM MBFS. First releases of official ASAM checkers: A2L Checker, ODS Model and Data Checker. 2007: Regional representation of ASAM in India. First release of ASAM FSX. 2008: Founding of the TSC (Technical Steering Committee) for technical controlling of the standard development. First release of ASAM LXF. 2009: First release of ASAM HIL. Incorporation of MDF into ASAM and first release as ASAM MDF. 2010: Membership meeting decision to allow free access to ASAM standards for members only. Non-members have to purchase standards to contribute to the costs of their development. 2011: First regional project group in the USA for creating an ODS companion standard. Honda becomes first OEM member from Japan. First regional ASAM interest group in Japan. 2012: ASAM MCD-3 is split up into two independent standards ASAM MCD-3 MC and ASAM MCD-3 D. First release of ASAM ATX. 2013: Renaming of ASAM HIL to ASAM XIL and release of ASAM XIL 2.0 with open-source software that implements a significant part