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Charter:
The Specification Management Subcommittee
is a subcommittee of the Architecture Board. Its primary
objective
is to manage the publication of OMG adopted specification on
behalf of the AB and provide the membership at large a forum for
discussing and resolving issues
related to the management of packaging and publication of
standards.
One of the “public faces” of the OMG is its
specifications; they comprise a set of specifications for
product developers and a set of expectations for users. It is a
natural consequence of the OMG process that specifications are
developed and amended at different times following different
lifecycles. In addition, all
OMG specifications are actively maintained to resolve conflicts
or misinterpretations or to clarify them. Thus, it is sometimes
difficult to come to a coherent comprehension of the set of OMG
standards. This SC is tasked with minimizing this problem by
managing the lifecycles of documents so as to reduce
inconsistencies and enhance comprehensibility.
Mission:
The mission of the Specification Management
Subcommittee is to help manage the processes to
package, present, and publish the standards adopted by the OMG. This
includes:
- Providing membership coordination with
the OMG staff charged with packaging and publication of the
OMG standards.
- Specifying target dates for
synchronizing sets of specifications to present a coherent
view and ensuring that they are adhered to.
- Reviewing conformance statements of
specifications for conflicts and other mismatches and
advising the technical plenaries, of any inconsistencies with
suggestions on how to resolve them.
Concept of
Operation: To achieve these goals, this subcommittee
produces draft AB position papers for adoption by the AB that
articulate packaging, presentation, synchronization and
publication plans and roadmaps to guide the AB, OMG staff, and
OMG membership at large in planning and production of coherent
sets of formally published specifications. The plans and roadmap
are enacted using the normal processes available through the OMG
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Contacts:
How to get involved:
If you are interested in getting
involved with this group, want more information or would
like to come as a guest to an upcoming meeting and
obtain temporary access to the mailing list, please
contact one of our
Account Representative or contact one of the
Chairs.
Email Lists:
The OMG maintains a number of email
lists for our groups. Click here to view the
email list(s) which
are pertinent to this group. Many lists are only open to
members of the OMG.
If you have any questions about adopted
specifications, please feel free to contact the
tech-editor.
25 June 2008 in Ottawa ON, Canada
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