Called the Directory Interoperability Forum (DIF), the group said it will work with existing standards bodies including the Internet Engineering Task Force, the Desktop Management Task Force, the World Wide Web Consortium and the Open Group to...
However, while the company has habitually alerted America's National Infrastructure Protection Center - the FBI's cybersecurity task force - of any flaw that it finds, the guidelines don't require it to tell third-parties about software bugs that...
The committee will work with ongoing technical developments at other standards bodies, including the World Wide Web Consortium and the Distributed Management Task Force. OASIS said it has formed committees to shepherd the completion of standards...
The WS-I was formed last year at the behest of companies including IBM and Microsoft. The WS-I's security effort comes after a task force spent several months determining the scope of the security problem and the expected needs of businesses.
In August, Microsoft had feted more than 80 email service providers in Redmond, Washington, as part of the E-mail Service Provider Consortium. The ruling appears to allow for negotiation, if Microsoft considers removing licensing restrictions.
A consortium of vendors called the Trusted Computing Group is already working on an architecture that will use open standards. The companies said they also will work with other organizations, such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics...