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The SAIF project was established as a means of addressing interoperability between different geographic information systems. Exchange formats of particular prominence at the time included DIGEST (Digital Geographic Information Exchange Standard) and [[SDTS]] (Spatial Data Transfer Specification, later accepted as the Spatial Data Transfer Standard). These were considered as too inflexible and difficult to use. Consequently, the [[Executive Council of British Columbia|Government of British Columbia]] decided to develop SAIF and to put it forward as a national standard in [[Canada]].
SAIF became a Canadian national standard in 1993 with the approval of the Canadian General Standards Board. The last version of SAIF, published in January 1995, is designated as CGIS-SAIF Canadian Geomatics Interchange Standard: Spatial Archive and Interchange Format: Formal Definition (Release 3.2),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://publications.gc.ca/site/eng/64080/publication.html|title=CGIS-SAIF Canadian geomatics interchange standard: Spatial archive and interchange format: Formal definition (Release 3.2) / Prepared by the Ministry of the Environment, British Columbia. : P29-171-001-1995E - Government of Canada Publications - Canada.ca|date=July 2002}}</ref> issue CAN/CGSB-171.1-95, catalogue number P29-171-001-1995E.
The work on the SAIF modeling paradigm and the CSN classes was carried out principally by Mark Sondheim, Henry Kucera and Peter Friesen, all with the British Columbia government at the time. Dale Lutz and Don Murray of Safe Software developed the Object Syntax Notation and the Reader and Writer software that became part of the Feature Manipulation Engine.
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