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

Additional information can be found at: https://omg.org/events/2026q2/agendas-temp/MARSPTFCalendar-aux.pdf

Mon 2026-06-01 (MARS Plenary)
Callin Info: Callin access through meet.goto.com will be available to registered attendees during the event.
09:00-10:30Spare
Time slot available to be filled, potentially by OARC's Spatial DDS 1.4:  Initial review of Draft RFC.  In that case, schedule will be adjusted to accommodate (e.g., shift Meeting Week Kick-off).
10:45-11:00Meeting Week Kick-off
Meeting week kick off, running through and potentially updating the agenda.
Break Schedule:
10:30-10:45 (MonAM); 10:30-10:45 (ThuAM)
11:00-12:00IDL for UML (IDL4UML) RFP: Review Draft
Presenter:  Roy Bell (Thematix)
Draft RFP: mars/26-04-01
Invited to join: IDLWG, 
13:00-17:00IDL WG (Co-Chairs: Chuck Abbott, Fernando Garcia)
Click on the posted Agenda (includes remote connection info) to access the agenda for the MARS IDL WG.
Tue 2026-06-02
10:00-12:00IDL WG (Co-Chairs: Chuck Abbott, Fernando Garcia)
Click on the posted Agenda (includes remote connection info) to access the agenda for the MARS IDL WG.
13:00-17:00IDL WG (Co-Chairs: Chuck Abbott, Fernando Garcia)
Click on the posted Agenda (includes remote connection info) to access the agenda for the MARS IDL WG.
Wed 2026-06-03
09:00-12:00DDS PSIG
Agenda
13:30-17:00CORBA WG (Chair: John Draga)
Click on the posted Agenda (includes remote connection info) to access the agenda for the MARS CORBA WG.
13:30-17:00IEF WG (Co-Chairs: Mike Abramson, Alfred Strauch)
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Thu 2026-06-04 (MARS Plenary)
Callin Info: Callin access through meet.goto.com will be available to registered attendees during the event.
09:00-10:30Spare
Time slot available to be filled.
10:45-11:00CORBA 3.5 RTF: Progress Report
Presenters: Chuck Abbott (OIS) / John Draga (Rocket Software)
WIP Page
11:00-11:10Motions to Issue, Extend, or Adopt
Vote to Issue
11:10- IIDL for UML (IDL4UML) RFP - Roy Bell (Thematix); Draft RFP: mars/26-04-01[TFQ=3]

11:10-12:00Meeting Wrap-up
11:10 - Vote to approve Draft 1Q 2026 Meeting Minutes (mars/26-03-03) [TFQ=3]
11:20 - WG Report-Outs (CORBA, IDL, IEF) 
11:40 - Plan for next mtng (update roadmap**) & other ad hoc topics
**As of March meeting
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.


Other items for your consideration:
Tue 2026-06-02
10:00-12:00C4I DTF: FACE Interop Spec Updates & SIP RA RFP Follow-up
Agenda
C4I DTF will discuss two items of particular interest to MARS: 
- Updates to FACE Interoperability specifications
- Structured Information Processing Reference Architecture (SIP-RA) RFP proposal by Nick Stavros (Jackrabbit) (Google Doc link)
Wed 2026-06-03
13:30-15:00AB Process SC
Agenda
15:30-16:30SMSC
Agenda
16:30-17:30Liaison SC
Agenda


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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