In January2004, the Governing Board of The Open Group approved the recommendation from the DBIOP consortium members that the DRDAv3 Technical Specification should be published by The Open Group as an Open Group standard.
The 3-volume DRDA Version 3 Standard:
superseded the DRDA Version 2 technical standard which was published in December 1999. The DRDA development work uses the Distributed Transaction Processing: XA+ Specification (S423, June 1994).
The Open Group issued a press release following publication of its DRDAv3 Technical Standard - this can be viewed at http://www.opengroup.org/comm/press/26feb04.htm
The Open Group recognized its responsibility to maintain and support its Technical Standards. Comments on the DRDAv3 technical standard can be sent to our publications group. Queries are addressed by the DRDAv3 support team .
The DBIOP consortium was formed in 1996, with a mission to develop industry standards related to the Distributed Relational Database Architecture (DRDA) base specifications that were contributed to the consortium by IBM.
DBIOP was set up as a Managed Consortium in The Open Group - that is, The Open Group provided management services for the members of the DBIOP Consortium. These services included project management and facilitation, teleconferences, meetings, administration and electronic communications facilities including email and Web, editorial services, and The Open Group's internationally recognized review and consensus process for development of industry standards.
The original White Paper on requirements was developed in 1996 by a User Council team led by Tony Gualtieri of Kemper National Insurance Companies and also of GUIDE International. The Prospectus for the DBIOP consortium explained the goals that were set. When these were achieved - by the DBIOP consortium members reaching unanimous agreement on the content of the DRDA Version 3 specification in December 2003 - the DBIOP consortium members (Microsoft, IBM Corporation, Rocket Software, Starquest Ventures) decided their task was completed and so decided to close down.