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Real-Time & Embedded Systems Forum

Objective of Meeting

The objective of the Thursday morning session was to address strategic and tactical planning elements for the RTES Forum and to prioritize the many ongoing activities and new action items that came out of the conference week. The afternoon session was to kick off the Secure Mobile Architecture Working Group within the RTES Forum.

Summary

Morning Session

Most of the morning session was spent determining an advocacy strategy, based on consensus from the RTES Forum for sustainability and support for current and future Protection Profiles within NIAP.

There was also a good discussion on which Protection Profiles for the MILS Architecture should be created or extended, and critical to that discussion was the need to build consensus around priorities for that work within the Forum.

Further discussion on the value of common APIs was also a hot topic during the Strategy session.

There were presentations by Joe Bergmann on who we need to work with in what government agencies to further the objectives of the RTES Forum. And associated with that was the action to update the RTES Roadmap and Strategy to reflect group consensus on the RTES near and far-term objectives and strategy.

With respect to The Open Group’s upcoming Hong Kong Conference, the RTES focus will be on Dependability through Assurance. Joe Bergmann will be publishing an agenda, securing speakers, attending the Conference, and will be representing the RTES interests. Although there will not be an RTES Member Meeting in Hong Kong, if you have colleagues or business partners in that part of the globe, please encourage them to attend.

There will, however, be an interim RTES Forum meeting open to all members that will be held during the early November timeframe and is to be hosted by one of the members. We will be solidifying details in the near future and sending them out through the RTES Forum member mailing list.

Afternoon Session

The afternoon session featured a presentation on Mobile Devices (including SCADA) as they apply to Real-Time Applications by Steve Venema from Boeing. This sparked good discussion on where this fits within Real-Time and how the RTES Forum should progress the challenges of the mobility domain.

Outputs

Strategic approach to advocacy for the support of existing and future Protection Profiles and MILS within the appropriate government agencies.

Next Steps

Determine date and location of next RTES Member Meeting in the US and provide agenda and invites by early September. Focus on encouraging participation from all RTES Forum members.

Prioritize Protection Profile work and adjust Roadmap accordingly.

Update Roadmap and RTES Forum Strategy to reflect all outcomes from this Toronto meeting – distribute to all members for feedback and consensus prior to the next member meeting.

Links

We are still gathering all of the presentations. Links will be provided next week.


   
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