DMTF Newsletter 2007

DMTF Newsletter, February 2007	Page 4

Work Group Teleconferences

Technical Committee Cont'd

Server Management
- Thursdays 1:00-2:00 p.m.

System Virtualization, Partitioning, and Clustering
- Thursday 9:00-10:30 a.m.

WBEM Infrastructure and Protocols
- Wednesdays 9:00-10:00 a.m.

Marketing Committee
- Wednesdays Noon-1:30 p.m. (every two weeks)

Interoperability Committee
- Tuesdays 10:00-11.00 a.m.

CDM Forum
- Tuesdays 8:00-9:00 a.m.

SMASH Forum
- Tuesdays 7:00-8:00 a.m.

Latest Specifications from the DMTF

The DMTF continues its forward momentum with its progress on new and updated specifications and profiles. Below is a list of the latest that were approved in January for release by the DMTF board of directors:

Released as Preliminary - Specifications

DSP0231, CIM Simplified Policy Language (CIM-SPL)
DSP1043, Application Capabilities Profile (from the System Virtualization, Partitioning, and Clustering Work Group)

Also in January, the DMTF board passed a TC request to re-organize its technical Work Groups to better address the DMTF’s needs as its technologies continue to evolve. The User and Security work will now be handled by the WBEM Interoperability and Protocols Work Group, and the Database Work Group has been combined with Core. In addition, the Security Protection and Management, Support and Utility Computing Work Groups have been discontinued.

To provide feedback on DMTF Preliminary specifications and all other Works in Progress made available to the public, non-members and Alliance Partners can now submit feedback via the DMTF’s new Feedback Portal.

Reminder: DMTF Annual Member Meeting

The DMTF's 2007 Annual Meeting of Members will be held as required by Oregon state law governing non-profit corporations. Meeting location, date and time:

Tuesday, February 6, 2007 - 12pm MST (11am PST, 1pm CST, 2pm EST)

Sun Microsystems, Inc.
500 Eldorado Blvd
Yosemite Room, BRM05 Building
Boulder, Colorado 80021
USA

On March 31, 2007, the current term for 7 of the 14 Board Member Companies will expire. This meeting will be held to elect 7 Board member companies as required by DMTF Bylaws for a 4 year term, and to address other matters that may come before the members during the meeting.

While all DMTF Members are invited to attend the Annual Meeting, only members with voting rights (those belonging to Board or Leadership level companies) can vote. However, no matter how many individuals from a single voting member company show up, each company only gets one vote (one company one vote). In case of a conflict, your company's vote will be determined by the company contact DMTF has on file. Each company contact can be found at:

http://www.dmtf.org/members/contacts/

If your company contact listed is incorrect please forward the updated contact information to: DMTF Administration

DMTF Member Survey a Success!

Thanks to all DMTF members who participated in the 2007 Member Survey, held in January. The results are being tabulated, and will be used to help the DMTF set its goals and priorities for 2007 to better meet the needs of its members.

Congratulations to the winners of the prize drawing Timothy Balraj, Barb Craig and Moshe Maor, and thanks to our survey sponsors AMD, Broadcom and Microsoft for providing these great prizes!