An Open Group Perspective James de Raeve VP Business Development j.deraeve@opengroup.org

The Open Group Formed in 1997 Membership open to all 60 employees 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

Process 2H2001 1999 2000 2001 POSIX.1-1996 POSIX amendments 1d,1g,1j,1q POSIX amendments 1d,1g,1j,1q Draft 5 Review draft Draft 5 Review draft Sanity Review Sanity Review Revised Standard Single UNIX Specification Version 2 Draft 1 Joint Revision Draft 1 Joint Revision POSIX.2-1993 1003.1a, 1003.2b, 1003.2d 1003.1a, 1003.2b, 1003.2d ISO C 99 ISO C 99

Status Approvals Certification & Testing The Open Group IEEE ISO/IEC 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 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