Middleware and Related Services PTF Agenda

OMG Technical Meeting
Chicago, IL

2026-06-01 to 2026-06-05
Timezone: CDT (UTC-0500)

Up to date agenda can be found at: https://omg.org/events/2026q2/agendas/MARSPTFCalendar.html

Mon 2026-06-01
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
- RFPs
   * IDL for UML (IDL4UML):  Review for issuance
- RFCs:
   * OARC's Spatial DDS 1.4:  Initial review of Draft (Tentative)

13:00-17:00IDL WG (Co-Chairs: Chuck Abbott, Fernando Garcia)
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Tue 2026-06-02
10:00-12:00IDL WG (Co-Chairs: Chuck Abbott, Fernando Garcia)
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13:00-17:00IDL WG (Co-Chairs: Chuck Abbott, Fernando Garcia)
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Wed 2026-06-03
09:00-12:00DDS PSIG
Agenda
13:30-17:00CORBA WG (Chair: John Draga)
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13:30-17:00IEF WG (Co-Chairs: Mike Abramson, Alfred Strauch)
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Thu 2026-06-04
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
• Other topics TBD
Vote to Issue:
• UML for IDL (UML4IDL) RFP
Other Motions:
• TBD
Meeting Wrap-up
• Vote to approve Draft March 2026 Meeting Minutes (mars/26-03-03)
• 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.
15:30-17:00Chairs 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/)
OARC:  Open Augmented Reality (AR) Cloud Association (https://www.openarcloud.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 Sept 2026 (TBD)
Subject to Revision
-  Review Initial Submission
    * IDL4  to Rust Language Mapping RFP
-  IDL, IEF, and CORBA WGs to meet.
-  Other Topics TBD

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