It Is Time to Standardize Principles and Practices for Software Memory Safety
Robert N. M. Watson, John Baldwin, David Chisnall, Tony Chen, Jessica Clarke, Brooks Davis, Nathaniel Wesley Filardo, Brett F. Gutstein, Graeme Jenkinson, Ben Laurie, Alfredo Mazzinghi, Simon W. Moore, Peter G. Neumann, Hamed Okhravi, Alex Richardson, Alexandre Rebert, Peter Sewell, Laurence Tratt, Murali Vijayaraghavan, Hugo Vincent · Communications of the ACM · 2025
Twenty-one authors, spanning academia and industry, with expertise in memory-safety research, deployment, and policy, argue that standardization is an essential next step to achieving universal strong memory safety.