The QoS Task Force and the Enterprise Management Forum have been
operating in closely related areas for some time and have been holding
joint meetings for the last year or so. Accordingly, it seems sensible
to bring the relationship closer together and operate them as a single
group.
The session focused on the organizational structure moving forward.
In the future the group will have 2 Co-Chairs, Jean Hammond and Karl
Schopmeyer, reflecting the 2 threads
of activity, and will schedule plenary sessions for the whole group,
with individual project sessions operating in parallel where possible.
The projects covered by the combined group are SLAs, the QoS/TMF SLA
Handbook, the QoS/Real Time Challenge, ARM, AIC, XSLM, snd Pegasus. A
major new activity, provisionally called Application QoS is planned for
launch at the next meeting in Austin.
Martin Kirk will be The Open Group Director principally responsible
for the combined group. Sally Long will maintain an involvement with the
group, but at a lower level.
A name for the combined group has not yet been determined.
