本标准的目的是提供（a）在信息技术促进学习、教育和培训（ITLET）环境中处理能力信息的一般框架；（b） 管理和交换能力信息及其相关对象的系统架构；（c） 用于表达能力及其相关对象的信息模型，包括对能力构成的介绍；（d）用于支持通用框架和能力信息模型开发的用例。

The objective of this Standard is to provide (a) a general framework for dealing with competency information in information technology for learning, education, and training (ITLET) contexts; (b) a system architecture for managing and exchanging competency information and its related objects; (c) an information model for expressing competency and its related objects that includes an introduction to the composition of competency; and (d) use cases used to support the development of the general framework and competency information model.