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Middleware and Related Services PTF Agenda

OMG Technical Meeting
San Francisco, CA

2025-12-08 to 2025-12-12
Timezone: PST (UTC-0800)

Up to date agenda can be found at: https://omg.org/events/2025q4/agendas/MARSPTFCalendar.html

Mon 2025-12-08
09:00-12:00MARS Plenary
Callin Info: Callin access through meet.goto.com will be available to registered attendees during the event.
• Meeting kickoff: Review upcoming week; entertain additions to agenda
Nominal List (to be revised after 4 wk deadline) actual placement (Mon or Thurs) TBD
-  Cloud WG Std Template for Cloud Service Agreements (CSA):  Review draft RFC
- Report on MARS specs to submit for inclusion in MSF Metaverse Standards Register
- Discuss proposal to extend IDL4 tosupport generation of UML models 
- Meet with AI PTF to discuss ways to gather data from other wire protocols using OMG specs (very tentative)

13:00-17:00IDL WG (Co-Chairs: Chuck Abbott, Fernando Garcia)
Posted Agenda (includes remote connection info)
Tue 2025-12-09
10:00-12:00IDL WG (Co-Chairs: Chuck Abbott, Fernando Garcia)
Posted Agenda (includes remote connection info)
13:00-17:00IDL WG (Co-Chairs: Chuck Abbott, Fernando Garcia)
Posted Agenda (includes remote connection info)
Wed 2025-12-10
13:30-17:00IEF WG (Co-Chairs: Mike Abramson, Alfred Strauch)
Posted Agenda (includes remote connection info)
13:30-17:00CORBA WG (Chair: John Draga)
Posted Agenda (includes remote connection info)
Thu 2025-12-11
09:00-12:00MARS Plenary
Callin Info: Callin access through meet.goto.com will be available to registered attendees during the event.
Nominal List to be updated after 4 wk deadline
• Progress Report CORBA 3.5 RTF
• IDL to Rust Language Mapping RFP: Review initial draft
• Other topics TBD
Vote to Issue:
• None
Vote to Publish:
• None
Vote to Extend:
• None
Other Motions:
• TBD
Meeting Wrap-up
• Vote to approve Draft September 2025 Meeting Minutes (mars/25-09-01)
• WG Report-Outs (IDL, CORBA, IEF)
• Plan for next mtng (update roadmap) & other ad hoc topics

13:00-15:00MARS Overflow
Time reserved and room available to handle work items generated during the week that dont need to be conducted in MARS plenary or discussions continued from presentations earlier in the week.
15:00-16:30Chairs Planning/Agenda Coordination
Time for MARS Chairs to work on Friday PTC report. Also available to coordinate the MARS agenda with other TFs and SIGs and vice-versa.


General notes:
Acronym Supplement
AI:  Artificial Intelligence
CORBA:  Common Object Request Broker Architecture (https://www.corba.org/)
DIDO:  Distributed Immutable Data Object
DP:  Discussion Paper
ERMA: Enterprise Resource Metadata Attributions
FACE:  Future Airborne Capability Environment Consortium, managed by the Open Group (https://www.opengroup.org/face)  
IEF:  Information Exchange Framework
MM:  Meeting Minutes 
MRF:  Machine Readable File
MSF: Metaverse Standards Forum (https://metaverse-standards.org/)
TFQ:  Task Force Quorum (for issuing documents or process votes before voting list closed)
VLQ:  Voting List Quorum (for process votes after the voting list closes)
Specific to this Agenda or not available at the OMG site
Plans for March  2026 (Reston)
Subject to Revision 
-  Review & Issue
    * Standard Template for Cloud Service Agreement RFC
-  Review revised submission (and adopt?)
    * DDS C# API
    * TCP/IP PSM for DDS Interop
    * Enterprise Resource Metadata Attributions (ERMA)
- Review to publish:
   * Cloud Security V4 DP
   * DIDO Reference Architecture (RA) V4.0 DP (?)
-  IDL, IEF, and CORBA WGs to meet.
-  Other Topics TBD

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