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In3 In Practice - Activities within The Open Group in support of In3

Tuesday 22 January 2002, 2.00-5.30pm

The Tuesday afternoon session is devoted to showing how The Open Group's Customer Council and Forums are responding to the In3 challenge:

• The Customer Council gathers requirements and translates them into real business needs, which it then presents to potential solutions providers.
• The Open Group Forums decide what requirements they will work on according to their respective visions of priorities for delivery of solutions.

The Customer Council
2.00-3.30pm

The key role of The Open Group Customer Council is as the keeper of customer needs. Many of these needs include elements of interoperability in open systems infrastructures/environments. In this session, the Customer Council briefly summarizes how it works, illustrates this using several example requirements, and outlines how its business scenario on The Interoperable Enterprise helps to understand the nature of interoperability in In3.

1. Introduction
   Role as keeper of customer requirements; Requirements Journal; how we work; understanding real requirements: Carl Bunje
2. Reprise on Requirements Reported in Amsterdam
   - Directory standards for enterprise management: Skip Slone
   - Meaningful Management framework APIs - Pegasus: Martin Kirk
   - Understanding security issues - MGIS, and more similar Guides: Eliot Solomon
3. Other Requirements Work since Amsterdam
   - Profiling interoperability: Terry Blevins
   - Management of PKI certificates: Eliot Solomon
   - Extending manageability, directory, and security, into mobile environments: Gregory Gorman & Roger Mizumori
4. Get involved
   How to support requirements work; questions: Carl Bunje

The Open Group Forums
4.00-5.30pm

The Open Group provides Forums within which IT Customers and Suppliers come together to address customer requirements, in areas such as Active Loss Prevention, Architecture, Directory Interoperability, Electronic Messaging, Enterprise Management, Mobile Management, Quality of Service, Real-Time & Embedded Systems, and Security.

This session will provide an overview of the current activities of The Open Group, and how they are contributing towards addressing the challenges of In3. The Open Group Director responsible for each Forum will outline

• The vision of the Forum. What will be different when the work of the Forum is done? What are the problems that the Forum is addressing.
• The forward roadmap for the Forum. What the Forum plans to achieve during 2002 (and beyond) and how this relates to the overall vision.