OMG Terms and Acronyms
- AB: Architecture Board
- The OMG Architecture Board.
- ABC: Architecture Board Chair
- A post appointed by the OMG Technical Director to lead activities of the AB.
- Adopted Specification
- A specification that has been sponsored by an OMG Contributing Member or Domain Contributing Member, and proposed and accepted as Adopted Technology under the OMG Bylaws, i.e. by the BOD.
- AO: Application Objects
- Applications managed within an object oriented system.
- BOD: Board Of Directors
- The OMG Board of Directors, as defined by the bylaws of the OMG.
- BOM: Business Object Model
- Objects that model an essential aspect of the application domain.
- CF: Common Facilities
- A collection of services that many applications may share, but which are not as fundamental as Object Services.
- CFTF Common Facilities Task Force
- Interfaces for horizontal end-user-oriented facilities, applicable to most domains.
- COM: Component Object Model
- A component that supports one or more interfaces as defined by the objects class.
- Contributing Member
- A Contributing member, in good standing, as defined by the OMG bylaws.
- CORBA: Common Object Request Broker Architecture
- CORBA consists of the following components: ORB, OS, CF, and AO.
- Domain Contributing Member
- A Domain Contributing member in good standing, as defined by the OMG bylaws.
- DSIG: Domain Special Interest Group
- Special Interest Group that deals with specific Domain issues.
- DTCC: Domain Technology Committee Chair
- A post appointed by the Technical Director of the OMG, to lead the activities of the DTC.
- DTC: Domain Technology Committee
- The OMG Domain Technology Committee.
- DTC Voter
- A Representative authorized by a DTC Member to cast its vote on DTC items. DTC Voters represent OMG Contributing Members and OMG Domain Contributing Members. Only one representative of a given member may be a DTC Voter.
- DTF: Domain Task Force
- Task Force concentrating on the needs of specific domain issues.
- EC: Electronic Commerce
- FTF: Finalization Task Force
- A Task Force with a closed membership of named individuals, responsible for clarifications of and minor modifications to an adopted OMG specification. It has almost identical function as RTF (Revision Task Force).
- GIS: Geographic Information Systems
- Programs that deal with mapping and locations
- IIOP: Internet Inter-Orb Protocol
- Part of Corba 2.0 specifications that allows all compliant ORBs to inter-operate. IIOP provides a comprehensive system through which objects can request services from one another across the wide variety of platforms or database systems they are built on.
- Invited Guest
- A liaison representative appointed by an external organization which has reciprocal liaison status with the OMG, or an individual who has received at least two invitations to attend technical plenary meetings from Contributing or Domain Contributing members. It is the policy of the OMG freely to allow guests & observers, so long as they request to attend.
- LOI: Letter Of Intent
- MOF: Meta Objects Facility
- Generalized facility and repository for storing abstract information about very concrete object systems; mostly dealing with construction.
- OA&D: Object Analysis & Design
- OMA: Object Management Architecture (Compliant Application)
- An application consisting of a set of classes and objects that interact via an Object Request Broker.
- OMG: Object Management Group
- A consortium of object technology vendors, established in 1989, whose mission is to define the architecture of an open software bus on which object components can inter-operate across networks and operating systems.
- OMGBOD: Object Management Group Board Of Directors
- OMG IDL: Object Management Group Interface Definition Language
- OOA: Object Oriented Analysis
- The specification of requirements in terms of objects with identity that encapsulate properties and operations, messaging, inheritance, polymorphism and binding.
- ORB: Object Request Broker
- Enables objects to transparently make and receive requests and responses in a distributed environment. It is the foundation for building applications from distributed objects and for interoperability between applications in hetero- and homogeneous environments.
- ORBOS: Object Request Broker Object Services (Task Force)
- ORMSC: Object Reference Model Subcommittee
- OS: Object Services
- A collection of interfaces and objects that support basic functions for using and implementing objects.
- Parent body
- The technical plenary that charters a particular subgroup.
- Proposed Specification
- A specification that an OMG Contributing Member or Domain Contributing Member wishes to sponsor under the Bylaws of the OMG in response to an RFP. Proposed Specifications are evaluated by the TCs and the AB for potential recommendation as Adopted Specifications.
- PSIG: Platform Special Interest Group
- Special Interest Group that deals with specific Platform technology issues.
- PTC: Platform Technology Committee
- The OMG Platform Technology Committee.
- PTCC: Platform Technology Committee Chair
- A post appointed by the Technical Director of the OMG, to lead the activities of the PTC.
- PTC Voter
- A representative authorized by a PTC member to cast its vote on PTC items. Voting PTC Members represent OMG Contributing Members. Only one representative of a given member may be a PTC Voter.
- PTF: Platform Task Force
- Task Force that deals with specific Platform technology issues.
- QOS: Quality of Service
- Quorum
- The minimum number of voters required to be present at a meeting for the proceedings to be valid and voting to take place.
- Registered Voter
- An individual authorized by an OMG member to cast its vote in meetings and electronic votes where that Member is eligible to vote. Registration is by depositing a letter with OMG staff, signed by an authorized Member representative, naming a single individual as that Member's Registered Voter for one or more of the OMG's Technology Committees.
- Representative
- An individual affiliated to an OMG member and attending a meeting of an OMG technical plenary or subgroup.
- RFC: Request For Comment
- A process allowing an OMG member to request OMG adoption of an uncontentious specification without requiring a Request for Proposals to be issued.
- RFI: Request For Information
- A general request to the computer industry, academia, and any other interested parties to submit information about a particular technology area to one of the OMG's TFs.
- RFP: Request For Proposal
- An explicit request to OMG members to submit proposals to one of the TC's TFs. Such proposals must be received by a certain deadline and are evaluated by TFs.
- RT: Real-time
- Property of computing systems classified by the requirement that the system provides a service on a hard deadline.
- RTF: Revision Task Force
- A Task Force with a closed membership of named individuals, responsible for clarifications of and minor modifications to an adopted OMG specification.
- SC: Sub-Committee
- A standing group of individuals composed of OMG member representatives and invited guests, with a general remit to provide recommendations to its parent body.
- SCC: Subcommittee Chair
- A representative elected by an SC, responsible for leading the activities of that SC, as well as presenting SC recommendations to the parent body.
- SIG: Special Interest Group
- A group of individuals composed of OMG member representatives and invited guests, with a general area of interest outside the immediate goals of the parent body. Typically a SIG is formed to explore specific technology areas and generate OMG Discussion Papers in that topic area.
- Special Interest Group Chair
- A representative elected by a SIG, responsible for leading the activities of that SIG, as well as presenting SIG Discussion Papers to its parent body and the OMG at large.
- Standing Proxy
- An individual authorized by a Member's Registered Voter to cast that Member's vote in OMG meetings or electronic polls.
- STV: Single Transferable Vote
- A voting technique for filling multiple positions in the course of one poll. The procedure is laid down by the Electoral Reform Society.
- Subgroup
- A Task Force, Subcommittee or Special Interest Group. Subgroups have wider membership criteria than their parent bodies, so it is possible for an OMG member without voting rights in a particular technical plenary to have voting membership of one of its subgroups. An OMG member represented in a subgroup has a single vote in decisions of that subgroup, regardless of how many representatives attend.
- TC: Technical Committee
- Technology Committee; Technical plenary bodies of OMG, primarily composed of Task Forces. They are responsible for chartering Task Forces and Special Interest groups. Final level of member approval before Board of Directors.
- TF: Task Force
- A group of individuals composed of OMG member representatives and invited guests, with the specific objective of solving some particular problem or problems in a particular arena for recommendation to its parent body. A particular use of the Task Force structure is to generate Requests for Information (RFIs) or Requests for Proposals (RFPs), and to evaluate responses.
- TFC: Task Force Chair
- A representative elected by a TF, responsible for leading the activities of that TF, as well as presenting TF recommendations to its parent body.
- TM: Technical Meeting
- UML: Unified Modeling Language
- WG: Work Group
- A group of employees whose work assignments require them to share business related resources over the same computer networks.