all of the futurebus+ proponents had their idea of what futurebus+ should be. this degenerated into "profiles", different versions of futurebus+ targeted towards a particular market. boards that were compliant with one futurebus+ profile were not guaranteed to work with boards built to a different profile. the futurebus+ standards development politics got so complicated that the ieee 896 committee split from the ieee microcomputer standards committee and formed the ieee bus architecture standards committee (basc).