Context and motivation
The “Asgardia Standards Act” states that Asgardian Standards should be defined, clearly recognizable and easily accessible, maintained by an Asgardian institute. It also states that the requirements regarding compliancy to Asgardian Standards should be described and that it should be possible by a second, independent organization, to formally check and confirm the compliance to Asgardian Standards. That first institute is the AIS, the Asgardia Institute of Standards, the second one is ACQia, the Institute of Asgardia for the Assurance of Compliance and Quality.

Before the Act was formally accepted by the Parliament, AIS and ACQia could not yet be established. However, it was deemed important that a structure should already be established, to assist companies and organizations within Asgardia in matters related to standardization. Thus, the Pre-AIS and Pre-ACQia were created, as precursors to AIS and ACQia.

Now that the Asgardia Standards Act was passed, accepted and enacted by the Head of Nation of Asgardia, via Decree 66 (see also here), AIS and ACQia are now formally activated and fully functional. As a part of that activation, Asgardia Transitional Standards were converted into Asgardia Standards.

Goal
The goals of ACQia are:

• assist companies, organizations, start-ups and other bodies within Asgardia and interacting with Asgardia, with matters relating to Asgardia Standards;
• encourage the validation of products, services and organizations against Asgardia Standards;
• check the compliancy of components, products, services and organizations to Asgardian Standards and when necessary, assist them in becoming compliant, with the ultimate goal to provide them with a formal statement of compliancy to a specific Asgardia Standard, thus effectively performing an “Audit”;
• assist companies, organizations, start-ups and other bodies within Asgardia and interacting with Asgardia, with AMIA, the Asgardia Manufacturing & Integration Approach
• encourage the validation of services, procedures and organizations against AMIA
• check the compliancy of services, procedures and organizations to AMIA and when necessary, assist them in becoming compliant, with the ultimate goal to provide them with a formal statement of compliancy to AMIA, thus effectively performing an “Audit”;
• check projects against APMF, the Asgardian Project Management Framework;
• audit projects against APMF (APMF is maintained by APCI, the Asgardia Project Coordination Institute);
• in an evolutionary way improve the organizational structure, the procedures and other aspects of the ACQia.

Using and running ACQia should be easy, efficient and cost-effective in resources and money. The ACQia should be professional and agile.

The ACQia itself will be modified through time, since it is always good to learn and improve.

Summary
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