Current Standards Focus

• Directory
• CORBA                         
• Universal Management Installation Agent (UMIA)
• Single UNIX Specification
• Software License Management (XSLM)
• Common Data Security Architecture (CDSA)
• Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
• LINUX

Open Source

The Open Group is offering $1million in access to CORBA^® test suites and the Open Brand for CORBA^® to select Open Source middleware vendors.  The Open Group is offering compliance testing, certification, and branding services - amounting to $1million free-of-charge - to promote the interoperability of Open Source Object Request  Brokers (ORBs).  With this sponsorship we hope to boost confidence in Open Source freeware within the IT/IS community.

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Open Brand for CORBA Launched

The Open Brand for CORBAâ was launched in the second quarter with three companies registering products:

Open Brand Plans

Open Brands for CDSA and Software License Use Management (XSLM) are in the planning for 2000.  Discussions are underway for Application Response Management (ARM) and Universal Management Installation Agent (UMIA).

UNIX Program

IEEE Agreement

The Open Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding with IEEE regarding joint development of the Austin Group Specification.  The Austin Group (IEEE PASC, ISO/IEC WG15, and The Open Group Base Working Group) is working on the Single UNIX^® Specification, Version 3.  With this agreement, the revised Specification can be both an IEEE standard and an Open Group Technical Standard.

LINUX

The Open Group UNIX^® Program Manager, Andrew Josey, will give a talk at the August Linux World in San Jose, California, on the LSB-FHS test suite.  Released in May and now freely available, this suite tests the file system hierarchy aspects of the Linux Standards Base.

XNET Working Group

Focused on portability specifications for Communications Services in the UNIX^® and C environment, the group is developing the Networking Services, Issue 5, Version 2 Specification (containing IPv6).  This Specification will be submitted into the Austin Group process in December 1999.

Trust and Confidence in the Global Infrastructure

The Open Group Quarterly Conference, Washington, D.C., October, 1999

The Open Group’s October conference Trust and Confidence in the Global Infrastructure will bring together government, industry, and technology leaders to focus on the design, implementation, and management of systems for handling sensitive or secret data, and the growth of electronic commerce.
(see page 4 for details)