[7 June 1996: Attached is a
draft charter for a proposed OMG Internet Platform Task Force. A decision
was made at the OMG Internet SIG meeting held in Washington D.C. on 3-7
June 1996not to request to convert IPSIG to a task force at this time.
Instead, the Internet Services
RFI drafted by IPSIG was released as an OMG ORBOS RFI. We will await
responses to the RFI to determine which is the right thing to do:
- recommend a new task force
- partition the work among existing task forces.]
Internet
TaskForce
Acting Co-Chairs: Shel Sutton (MITRE) and Craig Thompson(OBJS)
Telephone: 703-883-6677 214-379-3320
Email: shel@mail06.mitre.org,
thompson@objs.com
The charter of the OMG Internet Platform Task Force (ITF) is to:
- Identify wide area deployment issues
- Achieve alignment of the OMG's Object Management Architecture(OMA),
Internet, and World Wide Web (WWW)
- Develop specifications for services, facilities, tools, and protocols
for the WWW and information discovery
It is intended to bring the potential of enhanced interoperability,
reusability, application portability, etc. to the Internet based on OMG
technologies. At the same time, it will bring challenges to the OMG from
the Internet community for infrastructure mechanisms (e.g., scalability,
security, tunneling) to make OMG technologies pervasive.
The Internet Task Force's mission is to:
- Provide a focal point for interested parties to come together to pool
experience on the use of OMG technologies in Internet settings
- Communicate requirements from the Internet, WWW, and related communities
to the Architecture Board, the Platform and Domain Technical Committees,
and to other OMG subgroups as appropriate
- Investigate extensions to the OMG object management architecture (OMA)
to facilitate Internet interoperability
- Issue RFIs and RFPs for CORBA-based technology relevant to the Internet
and World Wide Web
- Evaluate RFI and RFP responses and RFCs for recommended adoption by
the Platform Technical Committee
- Promote the use of Internet tools that are based on OMG distributed
object technologies
- Leverage existing OMG specifications especially CORBA, CORBAservices,
and CORBAfacilities.
- Recommend liaison with other appropriate organizations.
Formatting note: The above charter is in the format of
other OMG task forces.
Last Modified: 13 June 1996 (reflects updates from Washington
D.C. IPSIG meeting)