1. Informal Forum Summit Meeting Geneva, Switzerland 3-4 December 2001 Allen Brown President and CEO a.brown@opengroup.org

2. About The Open Group

3. The Open Group Membership  Australia  Austria  Belgium  Canada  France  Germany  Ireland  Israel  Japan  Korea  Netherlands  Norway  Portugal  Russia  Slovenia  Spain  Sweden  Switzerland  UK  USA

4. The Open Group Role  Ensure requirements derived from real interoperability issues are driving standards (Customer view)  Ensure technical direction of interoperability standards are addressing market needs (Supplier view)  Enable networking with knowledgeable people who are making an impact on the technical direction of the IT industry  Provide a forum for IT standards with a focus on interoperability  Build relationships with other consortia  Deliver assurance of interoperability through testing and certification

5. Membership Process Process Overview Goal: Market Uptake CertificationProcess Certification Policy Program Development Trade Marks Test Development Certification Admin Marketing Process Conferences Publications Licensing Procurement Promotion InteroperabilityProcess DirConnect Plugfest Unplugfest Standards Process Business Scenarios Architecture Roadmap Adopt Adapt Integrate Vision Process Oversight Research Process Service Delivery Consortia Government Agencies Commercial Advanced Research Technology Transfer

6. Management Team Membership UNIXSecurity Forum RealTime & Embedded Systems Forum QoS Task Force Organization Structure Governing Board Mobile Management Forum Enterprise Management Forum Electronic Messaging Association Directory Interoperability Forum Active Loss Prevention Architecture Forum Research Business Certification Business Membership Business Marketing & Sales Operations Support Legal & Human Resources SponsorsElected Representatives President & CEO Customer Council Supplier Council

7. Certification Activity Start date Products certified Waivers and interpretations UNIX1988200>750 NC Client server interoperability 19974> 50 WAP Web based and end-to-end interoperability certification 200064 >430 LDAP Client server interoperability 200028>25

8. Relations with Consortia and Other Organizations  Austin Group Austin Group  Association of Interactive Media Association of Interactive Media  Bluetooth SIG Bluetooth SIG  Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University  Center for Internet Security (CIS) Center for Internet Security (CIS)  Data Interchange Standards Association Data Interchange Standards Association  Database Interoperability Group Database Interoperability Group  DCI DCI  DMTF DMTF  DSML DSML  EEMA EEMA  Free Standards Group Free Standards Group  GMD Fokus Group GMD Fokus Group  IBIX IBIX  ICX Security ICX Security  IEEE PASC IEEE PASC  IEEE Standards Association IEEE Standards Association  IETF IETF  Internet Mail Consortium Internet Mail Consortium  IPv6 Forum IPv6 Forum  (ISC)2 Information Security Forum (ISF) (ISC)2Information Security Forum (ISF)  Internet Security Alliance Internet Security Alliance  ISO/IEC SC22 WG15 ISO/IEC SC22 WG15  ITU-T ITU-T  J Consortium J Consortium  Linux Standards Base Linux Standards Base  MPLS Forum MPLS Forum  MWIF MWIF  NCITS R1 NCITS R1  NAC NAC  NIST PCSRF NIST PCSRF  OASIS OASIS  OMG OMG  OSGi OSGi  POSC POSC  QoS Forum QoS Forum  SAE SAE  SNIA  SyncML SyncML  Telecommunications Industry Association Telecommunications Industry Association  TMF TMF  UDI Consortium UDI Consortium  UDDI UDDI  W3C W3C  WAP Forum WAP Forum  WEMA WEMA  X.Org X.Org

9. The Austin Common Standards Revision Group  Integrate multiple competing specification efforts  Combine industry led efforts and formal standardization activities  A common revision of  ISO/IEC 9945-1  ISO/IEC 9945-2  IEEE Std 1003.1  IEEE Std 1003.2 and appropriate parts of  The Single UNIX Specification.

10. Free Publication downloads  Single UNIX Spec V23241  CDSA V21788  DCE RPC1181  Architecture (TOGAF) 511  Data Management1049  Directory 154  Dist Computing1660  Interworking1053  Network Computing 349  Security4198  Single UNIX Spec3241  Systems Management3031  Test Suites & Tools 559  Wireless & Mobile 273 Free web downloads Mar – Sep 2001

11. Open Source / Free Tools  Languages  ADL 2.0  Software  Pegasus Manageability Services Broker  Open Motif  TET – Test Environment Toolkit  Test suites  Network Computer Rendition Test – Web browsers  VSX-PCTS -FIPS  VSW4 & 5 - X Windows  VSTHLite - pthreads  VSORB - CORBA  VSC Lite – commands  LSB-VSX - Linux Standard Base  VSM4 – Motif  FHS 2.0 – Linux Standard Base

12. An Opportunity  Session Management Requirements & Issues  A White Paper from the Mobile Management Forum  How can we meet these requirements?  What roles could each of us take?