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Meeting Report

Secure Mobile Architecture

17^th October 2002, Cannes, France

Objectives of Meeting

This meeting set out to achieve the following:

• Review Issues and Requirement Document Drafts.

• Agree SMA work programme and deliverables to July 2003.

• Collect member input for the Marketing Plan.

• Discuss current and future liaison activities.

Summary

The meeting began by discussing and agreeing our agenda for the day.

We reviewed the enhanced Executive On the Move scenario, which has been developed for the Mobile and Directory Challenge. This highlighted many issues, particularly surrounding the significant challenge of assigning and maintaining a unique identifier for the device and the person using the device. There are also challenges about roaming between WISPs in a single continuous session. These will need to be addressed within the SMA prior to the MaD challenge receiving our work for the challenge event in July.

Forum Directors reported that MMF web pages now appear prominently in Search Engine results following recent search engine promotion work over the last 3 months. (As an example go to Google and enter “Mobile Management”).

WORK SCHEDULE

One of the main outputs of the day was the deliverables list and work plan. We started by building an outline of what we wished to achieve and then mapped this around significant events. The plan was then enhanced and refined throughout the day.

LIAISONS

There continues to be active and productive inter-working with the DMTF. We may need to change the schedule of our weekly telecon to permit more DMTF members to attend the SMA-WG call on a regular basis.

Our newly inked Memorandum of Understanding with the PCCA was discussed. We agreed the structure and content of the presentation to be given by the Forum Director at the forthcoming PCCA meeting in November. We also discussed a proposal for the joint meeting to be held in February. This proposal now needs to be considered and agreed in principle by both organisations before we drive to the next level of detail. It is planned that we will have this agreement by 1^st November so we can usefully define the action plan for the event when Forum Directors meet with the PCCA in November.

Forum Directors reported that we have active interest from PassONE. They have a specification which will need both enhancement and at a later stage development to a standard which will require conformance testing and certification. The Open Group has also begun discussions with PassONE to investigate how we might help them achieve that.

After much discussion the members voted that the MMF will not actively pursue a working liaison with the OMA, but will prepare an Abstract of our completed documentation to keep them informed of our activities.

The members agreed that Forum Directors should continue to pursue a liaison with the Mobile Computer User Group as this will assist the Working Group to gain more Enterprise input on the Issues and Requirements documents.

MARKETING PLAN

The Forum discussed elements of our marketing plan in the context of the work program we had agreed earlier. This included the Analyst and Press contacts we should be briefing as we achieve each deliverable, and we also identified the public events at which there is an audience of Enterprise CIO and CTOs to which we might present our work. Also discussed were milestones which might prompt press releases. This information will now be built into a marketing plan by the Forum Directors and then submitted to the Forum Co-Chairs for review and comment.

IETF / IEEE 802.11 RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Richard Paine reported to the group the ongoing work at the IETF IEEE 802.11 Radio Resource Management, which will bear relevance to the SMA activities. This generated discussion with comments for Richard to take back to IETF as raporteur.

SMA WORK TO DATE

We agreed that SMA-WG will complete cross referencing of CIM Schema Profiles with SMA. The process for this is that Richard Paine will complete a first run at the exercise and then it will be reviewed over telecons. This work will commence in mid-November. Julie Schott of the DMTF (Cisco) agreed to take point on this from the DMTF.

It was agreed that the current completed work on the Issues and Requirements document will now enter a phase of technical editing to ensure consistency throughout the whole document.

Our next step is to develop a Vision and Architecture document which will be expressed using TOGAF structures and method.

DMaP WORK TO DATE

We collected feedback from the group on the work completed so far in the DMaP Issues and Requirements document.  Feedback included the need to revise the Synchronization work to take account of recent changes in the SMA I&R document. Also a recommendation to ensure close co-operation and review by the DEN and DMTF. We also need to extend the scope to cover; VPNs on handheld devices,  It was discussed and agreed that more work needs to be done to define the junction points to link the DMaP work with SMA deliverables.

Outputs

We produced an action plan detailing our work schedule and deliverables through to July 2003. This will be made available to MMF members on the members-only website.

Next Steps

• Forum Directors to gain agreement on the current proposal for joint PCCA meeting in February.

• Publish Work plan to members and invite comment prior to or at next SMA Telecon.

• Develop Standards Gap Analysis covering both SMA and DMaP scope areas.

• Develop first pass of input to the Open Group Standards Information Base.

We plan to hold our next meeting on the 5^th February 2003 at the Hyatt Hotel, San Francisco Airport.

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