Middleware and Related Services PTF Agenda

OMG Technical Meeting
TBD

2026-09-14 to 2026-09-18
Timezone: EDT (UTC-0400)

Up to date agenda can be found at: https://omg.org/events/2026q3/agendas/MARSPTFCalendar.html

Mon 2026-09-14 (MARS Plenary)
Callin Info: Callin access through meet.goto.com will be available to registered attendees during the event.
09:00-09:15Meeting Week Kick-off
Meeting week kick off, running through and potentially updating the agenda.
Break Schedule:
10:00-10:15 (MonAM); 10:30-10:45 (ThuAM)
Note: Times are listed in the EDT time zone (UTC-4).
09:15-10:00IDL to Rust Language Mapping: Review Initial Submission 1
Presenter: Fernando Garcia (RTI)|(OIS, Rocket Software)
Issued RFP: mars/26-03-06; Initial submission: mars/26-08-01
10:15-11:00IDL to Rust Language Mapping: Review Initial Submission 2
Presenter: Jungsup Lee (Intellectus)
Issued RFP: mars/26-03-06; Initial submission: mars/26-08-02
11:00-12:00Structured Information Processing Reference Architecture (SIP-RA): Review Draft RFP
Presenter: Nick Stavros (Jackrabbit)
Draft RFP:  Wiki
13:00-17:00IDL WG (Co-Chairs: Chuck Abbott, Fernando Garcia)
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Tue 2026-09-15
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 2026-09-16
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 2026-09-17 (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
11:00-12:00Meeting Wrap-up
11:00 - Vote to approve Draft 2Q 2026 Meeting Minutes (mars/26-06-01) [TFQ=3]
11:10 - WG Report-Outs (IDL, IEF) 
11:30 - Plan for next mtng (update roadmap**) & other ad hoc topics
**As of June 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 2026-09-15
09:00-10:00(ADTF) UML RFP Discussion
Agenda
13:00-17:00BA Master Series Day 1: Business Architecture & Data Management Primer
Agenda
Wed 2026-09-16
09:00-17:30BA Master Series Day 2: Articulating the Business Architecture Information Perspective
Agenda
13:30-15:00AB Process SC
Agenda
15:30-16:30SMSC
Agenda
16:30-17:30Liaison SC
Agenda
Thu 2026-09-17
09:00-17:30BA Master Series Day 3: Leveraging Business Architecture for Data Management
Agenda


General notes:
Plans for Dec 2026 (Virtual)
Subject to Revision
- IDL for UML (IDL4UML) RFP:  Review draft & possibly issue
- Structured Information Processing (SIP) RA RFP:  Review next draft & possibly issue
- IDL4 to Rust Language Mapping RFP:  Review revised submission
- Cloud Security V4 DP: Review & possibly publish Discussion Paper
-  IDL, IEF, and CORBA WGs to meet.
-  Other Topics TBD
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

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