Dependability through Assuredness
(Monday October 19)

Objective of Meeting

This session was conducted by the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum.

The objective of this Monday session was two-fold:

• One objective was to provide an overview of The Open Group Real-time & Embedded Systems Forum and to demonstrate the importance of Dependability in the High Assurance environments of real-time and embedded systems.
• The other objective was look at Dependability through other perspectives. This session provided an intriguing look at Dependability through Assuredness as seen from the Japanese perspective, through the enlightened point of view of Junkyo (Jack) Fujieda-san, a long-time and industry-savvy member of The Open Group and the Real-time & Embedded Systems Forum.

Summary

The Dependability through Assuredness sessions were well attended with over 20 different participants throughout the course of the three-day program.

This Monday session was an afternoon only session, conducted by Joe Bergmann, Real-time & Embedded Systems Forum Director. Joe highlighted the strategic and tactical objectives of the Forum, offered a detailed look at some of the ongoing activities of the working groups, and discussed the Forum’s plans for an upcoming meeting to be held jointly with the Security Forum.

The Presentation from Joe provided an informative overview of the Real-time & Embedded Systems Forum, the Working Group activities, and its plans and objectives for 2010.

Joe Bergmann also provided an overview of the upcoming Joint Real-time & Embedded Systems and Security Forum meeting (November 16–18) in San Francisco, indicating the engagement with both Forums at a working meeting on important areas of discussion that are common to both, and which are covered in the Outputs section of these proceedings.

Following the Real-time & Embedded Systems Forum presentations and discussion, the important and valuable Japanese perspective on Dependability through Assuredness was provided by Junkyo (Jack) Fujieda.

The Fujieda-san session was a discussion of the importance of Dependability through Assuredness to activities of the Information Promotion Agency (IPA) and large industrial giants like NTT and Toyota.

Outputs

The work of the Real-time & Embedded Systems Forum activities discussed during this session and as outlined below will continue at the Joint Real-time & Embedded Systems and Security Forum meeting (November 16-18) in San Francisco.

• Open Systems Architecture
• Pocket Guide to Open Systems Architecture
• Security, High Assurance, and High Robustness Requirements for Cybersecurity
• Extending TOGAF to the platform to support real-time, real-time embedded, and security domains
• Multi-Independent Levels of Security (MILS), Developing  Standard APIs for middleware
• Secure Mobile Architecture and others

Next Steps

If you are interested in seeing a detailed agenda for the November 16-18 meeting or attending the upcoming joint Real-time & Embedded Systems and Security Forum meeting, please direct enquiries and/or register via email to: j.bergmann@opengroup.org or s.long@opengroup.org.

Links

We are still waiting for public release of the presentations. Links will be provided to the presentations within the next few weeks.