Liaison AB Subcommittee

[Formal Liaisons] [Membership Exchanges] [ISO Document Assignments]

OMG maintains active relationships with many other standards bodies and consortia. This is important, as these relationships help reduce duplication (and thus confusion) in the marketplace. In addition, the relationships allow vertical industry-oriented standards bodies and consortia to work with OMG to get the metamodels, APIs and other specifications they require to support their industry standards. Another benefit is to help disseminate information about OMG specifications and our program of work. Liaisons are managed by the Liaison Subcommittee of the OMG's Architecture Board. If you have any questions about these relationships or liaison in general, please contact the Liaison Subcommittee at liaison@omg.org.

The Liaison Subcommittee also manages submissions of OMG specifications to ISO's Publicly Available Specification (PAS) process. A list of OMG specifications submitted thus far can be found within this table.

Contacts

Liaisons and Membership Exchanges

Initially, most of OMG's liaisons are informal, started because members of either OMG or another organization see a benefit in coordinating the work of the two. Many of these informal liaisons are later formalized to allow for regular cross participation, either as Formal Liaisons or Membership Exchanges.

The following tables offer an overview of the OMG's liaison relationships. (We have more than one formal liaison with some of these organizations due to their size and structure.) 

Formal Liaisons

Many of the established standards development organizations (SDOs), e.g., ISO, already have a liaison procedure in place for coordinating work with other groups where it makes sense. Hence, relationships with such organizations take the form of a Liaison.

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Membership Exchange

In order to forge a stronger working relationship with other consortia, the OMG will often exchange membership with that organization. The following organizations have reciprocal membership arrangements with the OMG.

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ISO Document Assignments

The ISO Secretariat has allocated to OMG a block of numbers, 19500-19699, for the purpose of identifying OMG standards resulting from PAS. This will ensure all OMG standards are readily identifiable as coming from OMG. The table below lists assignments made to date.

Last updated on April 09, 2008 by Fred