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Meeting Report - COE Forum
Objective of Meeting
This was the first 'face to face' meeting of the Forum since its
formation in Q4 2002.
The COE Forum, is a working/review group established to define and
manage The Open Group's independent COE Platform Certification program,
to drive the work program for the COE Forum, and to set priorities for
the COE Forum.
Agenda:
Specifications, updates required, gaps
Open Source plans
Security testing - status
Forum objectives, work plan, deliverables
Application Platform
Round table / other business
Attendees:
Keith Cok SGI
Casey Schaufler SGI
Doug Johnson Sun
Mike Curry HP
Ron English IBM (by phone, part meeting)
Mark Brown IBM (by phone, part meeting)
Dave Lounsbury The Open Group (part)
Paul Hickey The Open Group (part)
Mike Hickey The Open Group (part)
Graham Bird The Open Group
Summary
- The following Vision for the COE
Forum was agreed:
To drive the evolution of the warfighter’s platform:
to meet the needs of DOD / DISA programs to meet the needs of
participants
- The following Mission for the COE
Forum was agreed:
Maintain and evolve COE KPC
Nurture the Network Centric Enterprise System program by:
Recommending industry best practices
Involving the NCES program in industry directions
Providing a forum for integrators, contractors and
application providers
- The following Goals were agreed:
Build confidence in DISA by….
Broaden membership through….
Reduce cost of compliance and testing by…
- The work program and priorities were
agreed as:
Test Suite improvements
Security test suite
COE Kernel
Automation report
Specifications
Appendix B (I&RTS)
Appendix E (Security SRS criteria)
Open Source
Talk to DISA re IP and support contracts
Communication
Report to DISA execs
COE Forum offer to write program docs for NCES
- The Forum wishes to broaden membership to include e.g. integrators
and application developers.
- Procurement is recognized as important, but not yet at the stage
where it should be on the priority list
- The HOSTS tests need considerable work, DL to lead an initiative
to identify problems and ensure they get into the Problem Report
system
Outputs
Work Program (see above)
Actions:
GBB to arrange speakers from DISA, and services for Boston
All prepare list of integrators and app developers to be contacted re
membership
GBB to review standard membership agreement and determine if it is
suitable for new members
DL to arrange a conference call to discuss problems with the HOSTS test
suite and improvements that can be made
Next Steps
Next face to face meeting will be Boston in July.
The forum intends to have presentations from DISA and each of the four
services on NCES, its impact and their plans and timescales for
implementation.
Other agenda items will include Open Source status and plans; Linux COE
status and impact on COE forum plans; and work program progress.
Links
Report
Back slides at Member Meeting
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