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SAN FRANCISCO, CA and PORTLAND, OR., Dec. 5, 2006 – The Core Identifier Workgroup, a joint initiative of The Open Group, the Network Applications Consortium (NAC), and the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) today announced the publication of a Business Scenario document that outlines the requirements for identity management products to support a standard representation of core identity.
The Open Group joins with the DMTF and the NAC in recommending solutions to work on common standards that improve interoperability. There is a need to address the problem of the proliferation of identifier forms, so that enterprises can save costs, be more secure, and have better IT services. The Business Scenario document captures some of the background, business processes, and actors related to the use of identifiers within the enterprise.
"Good identity management is an essential part of Boundaryless Information Flow™, and can also deliver increased value to the enterprise by enabling personalized IT services,” said Dr. Chris Harding, forum director for SOA and Semantic Interoperability, The Open Group.
The Core Identifier Workgroup arose out of strong input from members of The Open Group Customer Council that the proliferation of different identifier forms inhibits good identity management, and is a serious problem for enterprises today. These issues were also reinforced by similar input from members of the DMTF and the NAC. This problem is explored in depth in the Business Scenario, which was developed using proven requirements analysis techniques from The Open Group Architectural Framework (TOGAF™).
"Representatives from several NAC member companies are pleased to have been a part of the Core Identifier Work Group and to have participated in the development of the Identity Management Business Scenario. Activities like this support the mission of the NAC - to encourage vendors to incorporate these kinds of features into their products. It also supports the Policy Automation Roadmap that is outlined in the recent Enterprise Security Architecture document published by the NAC", stated Fred Wettling, Bechtel Fellow and NAC Co-Chairman.
“With a long-standing commitment to sharing its expertise in distributed management infrastructure, the DMTF is happy to join with two of its Alliance
2/ Core Identifier Workgroup Partners to support this work in the area of identity management,” said Winston Bumpus, president, DMTF. “As the industry organization leading the development, adoption and promotion of interoperable management initiatives and standards, the DMTF encourages efforts like the Core Identifier Work Group that lead to open approaches to common management problems.”
The identifier problem is a technical one, but it has implications from a business
perspective. The Business Scenario document explains the implications at the business level as well as specific requirements, as a precursor to a solution at the technical level. The technical solution and recommendations for its implementation will be published early next year, in a document titled the “Core Identifiers Workgroup Framework Matrix”.
The Framework Matrix document presents relevant details of more than 20 related de facto and de jure standards, and analyzes them in relation to the criteria defined in previously published documents from the workgroup. From this analysis, a technical solution is developed and recommendations for its implementation are provided.
"The key problems of identifier interoperability highlighted in the Business Scenario document were what motivated the creation of the Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) Technical Committee at OASIS," said Drummond Reed, co-chair of the XRI TC. "Members of the XRI TC were excited to participate in this work and help identify how XRI infrastructure can contribute to the solutions."
For companies wishing to download the “Business Scenario: Identifiers in the Enterprise”, go to any of the following locations:
www.opengroup.org/bookstore/catalog/k061.htm
www.netapps.org/pprequestform.cfm
The Open Group is a vendor-neutral and technology-neutral consortium, which drives the creation of Boundaryless Information Flow™ that will enable access to integrated information within and between enterprises based on open standards and global interoperability. The Open Group works with customers, suppliers, consortia and other standard bodies. Its role is to capture, understand and address current and emerging requirements, establish policies and share best practices; to facilitate interoperability, develop consensus, and evolve and integrate specifications and open source technologies; to offer a comprehensive set of services to enhance the operational efficiency of consortia; and to operate the industry’s premier certification service. Further information on The Open Group can be found at http://www.opengroup.org.
NAC is a consortium of IT end-user organizations across a number of industries, representing combined revenues of over $800 billion, more than 55,000 network servers, and more than 1 million workstations. Since it’s founding in 1990, NAC has emerged an influential group of information technologists dedicated to promoting integration, interoperability, and member and vendor collaboration. Further information about the NAC can be found at http://www.netapps.org.
With more than 3,500 active participants representing 39 countries and nearly 200 organizations, the Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. (DMTF) is the industry organization leading the development, adoption and promotion of interoperable management initiatives and standards. DMTF management technologies include the Common Diagnostic Model (CDM) initiative, the Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware (SMASH) initiative, Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) – including protocols such as CIM-XML and Web Services for Management (WS-Management) - which are all based on the Common Information Model (CIM). Information about the DMTF technologies and activities can be found at www.dmtf.org.
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