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The Open Group
Formed in 1997 From The Open Software Foundation X/Open
Membership open to all 60 employees Offices in
Reading, UK; San Francisco, CA; Woburn, MA; Tokyo
Over 200 members, ~ 30% buy side
Mission
The mission of The Open Group is to drive the creation of Boundaryless Information Flow by Working with customers to capture, understand and
address current and emerging requirements, establish policies, and share best practices;
Working with suppliers, consortia and standards bodies to develop consensus and facilitate interoperability, to evolve and integrate specifications and open source technologies;
Offering a comprehensive set of services to enhance the operational efficiency of consortia; and
Developing and operating the industry's premier certification service and encouraging procurement of certified products.
How
Membership activities Architecture Active Loss Prevention Directory
interoperability Enterprise Management Mobile Management Platform (UNIX) Real Time & Embedded
Systems Security
Business, legal and regulatory, technical aspects
Services to Consortia Admin, logistics, support Certification program
development and operation
LSB, WAP, SIF, OSGi, LDAP
Test suite development and maintenance
R&D Mainly for DARPA.
e.g. QUITE Open Source homesteading
“Pegasus” CIM/WBEM manageability services broker
For Buyers
Helping government and industry buyers make sense of what’s going on, and apply it in their business Business Scenarios Architecture Strategy Case studies Interaction with peers
Providing practical support to assist procurement Certification
Speeding up the Process….
Standard setting and evolution To meet business requirements Technically qualified and respected support for
technical working groups Convergent consensus process Clarity about IPR Integrate into “product” sized sets
Open Source implementations To accelerate adoption into products
Test suites To help developers get it right
Certification To help buyers know what will work
Some Examples
UNIX®
The Open Group owns the UNIX trademark It is licensed for use only in relation to certified
products A principle term in the license is that the
supplier guarantees that the product complies with the Single UNIX Specification Not just what is covered by tests
UNIX 98 is the current version of the certification program
Use by Federal Agencies - NASA SEWP III UNIX 95 branded with delivery of a copy of the Open Group
branding certificate provided with the proposal. UNIX 98 branding may be substituted for the UNIX 95
requirement (desirable) POSIX [IEEE POSIX 1003.1-1990]; compliant. The Government
will accept the vendor’s self certification for POSIX compliance “The Minimum Mandatory Specifications (Tab 1) and UNIX 95
or UNIX 98 Certifications (Tab 2) are minimum requirements. Proposal will not be evaluated further and/or considered for award if they do not meet these two requirements.”
The offeror shall describe their implementation of and commitment to open standards promulgated by standards organizations such as: OpenGroup, IEEE, ANSI, etc. The offeror shall include a corporate statement of commitment to future UNIX branding and address their commitment to future Open Group standards.
The Austin Group
Formed to update the Single UNIX specification a single text to be adopted by multiple parties –
IEEE, ISO SC22 WG15, The Open Group
Over 700 participants on the mailing list Wide industry support:
AT&T, Compaq, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Lucent, Microsoft, Red Hat, SGI, Siemens, Sun
DoD, USENIX, Canada revenue Participation from the open source community
The Linux Standard Base, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and many others
ISO C99
RevisedStandard
POSIX.1-1996POSIXamendments1d,1g,1j,1q
Draft 1JointRevision
Draft 5Review draft
1999
Single UNIXSpecificationVersion 2
1003.1a,1003.2b,1003.2dPOSIX.2-1993
2H2001
Sanity Review
ISO C99
POSIXamendments1d,1g,1j,1q
Draft 1JointRevision
Draft 5Review draft
2000 2001
1003.1a,1003.2b,1003.2d
Sanity Review
Process
Status
Approvals The Open Group
September 12th 2001 IEEE
December 6th 2001 ISO/IEC
Approval expected in 2H2002 Certification & Testing
Test suite updates under development available 3Q2002
Certification available ….. when the market is ready
DVB – Multimedia Home Platform Funded by a consortium of
implementers led by Sony
Test development contracted to The Open Group Over 2,000 tests
Contributions from consortium members Final set of tests will be published by
ETSI
WAP Forum – (now OMA)
Developed Application layer test suites for WAP 1.1 WAP June 2000 WAP 2.0 Funded by WAP Forum/OMA
Developed and operate on line testing and certification service for WAP 1.1 and June 2000 Funded from certification revenues
POSIX Realtime
Developed test suites for the POSIX realtime amendments 1003.1d/1003.1j/1003.1q)
Funded by DISA
Boston Conference July 21 – 26 Boudaryless Information Flow – the Role of Web
Services http://www.opengroup.org/Boston2002
Keynote by Tim Berners-Lee of W3C Case studies Discussions on
Web Services Standards Legal issues and Intellectual Property Rights Identity Management Certification and Testing Quality of Service
Speakers from W3C, DMTF, OASIS
