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Middleware and Related Services PTF Agenda

OMG Technical Meeting
Baton Rouge, LA

2026-12-01 to 2026-12-05
Timezone: EST (UTC-0500)

Up to date agenda can be found at: https://omg.org/events/2026q4/agendas/MARSPTFCalendar.html

Tue 2026-12-01
10:00-13:00MARS 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 (Tues or Fri) TBD
- IDL4 to Rust Language Mapping:  Interim progress report on submission consolidation effort
- RFPs
   * Structured Information Processing Reference Architecture (SIP-RA):  Review & potentially Issue
   * IDL for UML (IDL4UML): Review 3rd Draft & potentially issue
- Cloud Security DP (collab with Cloud Security Alliance):  Review & publish

14:00-18:00IDL WG (Co-Chairs: Chuck Abbott, Fernando Garcia)
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Wed 2026-12-02
11:00-13:00IDL WG (Co-Chairs: Chuck Abbott, Fernando Garcia)
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14:00-18:00IDL WG (Co-Chairs: Chuck Abbott, Fernando Garcia)
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Thu 2026-12-03
14:30-16:30CORBA WG (Chair: John Draga)
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16:30-18:30IEF WG (Co-Chairs: Mike Abramson,?)
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Fri 2026-12-04
10:00-13:00MARS 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:
• IDL for UML (IDL4UML) RFP
* Structured Information Processing Reference Architecture (SIP-RA) RFP
Vote to Publish:
• Cloud Security (collab with Cloud Security Alliance) DP
Meeting Wrap-up
• Vote to approve Draft September 2026 Meeting Minutes (mars/26-09-01)
• WG Report-Outs (IDL, CORBA, IEF)
• Plan for next mtng (update roadmap) & other ad hoc topics

14:00-16:00MARS 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.
16:30-18:00Chairs 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:
Plans for March 2027 (Reston)
Subject to Revision
- IDL4 to Rust Language Mapping RFP:  Review revised submission
- DDS C# API RFP:  Review revised submission
- TCP/IP PSM for DDS Interoperability RFP:  Review revised submission
-  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)
TMS:  Tactical Microgrid Standard (MIL-STD-3701)
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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