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All members of The Open Group may join either the Customer Council or the Supplier Council, and participate in capturing, and addressing emerging requirements, establishing policies and sharing best practices. All members may also participate in Birds of Feather groups (BOF's), which are short-lived groups established to examine potential new work areas.

FORUMS
In addition, based on the membership option they selected, all members are entitled to take part in the work of one or more Forums and their work areas. The Basic Option includes membership in The Open Group and in one Forum. Other options are available, and our Membership Director will be happy to discuss the best choice for your organization.

Architecture Forum

  • Forum work areas include:
    • Architecture strategy and standardization
    • TOGAF
    • Enterprise architecture
    • IT Architect certification
  • Cross-Forum work area:
    • Mobile architecture
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ArchiMate® Forum
  • Forum work areas include:
    • Exchanging good practices about the usage of ArchiMate concepts and viewpoints
    • Makimg available these good practices within the ArchiMate community
    • Proposimg improvements on the ArchiMate language (which will result in changes in the ArchiMate Reference Manual)
    • Proposing improvements and extensions on ArchiMate viewpoints
    • Proposing useful functionality for tools supporting ArchiMate
  • Cross-Forum work area:
    • TOGAF
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Enterprise Management Forum
  • Forum work areas include:
    • Enterprise management strategy and standardization
    • Common manageability infrastructure
    • Application management
    • Quality of Service strategy and standardization
  • Cross-Forum work area:
    • Mobile device management and provisioning
    • Enterprise QoS & service level agreements
    • Application manageability & QoS
    • Real-time QoS
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Identity Management Forum

  • Forum work areas include:
    • Identity management architecture
    • Identity management design patterns
    • Identity management standards
    • Directory Interoperability strategy and standardization
    • Directory certification
    • Mobile directory challenge
  • Cross-Forum work area:
    • Core identifiers
    • Messaging
    • Access control
    • PKI guidelines and manageability
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Jericho Forum®

Jericho Forum is the leading international IT security thought-leadership association dedicated to advancing secure business in a global open-network environment. Members include top IT security officers from multi-national Fortune 500s & entrepreneurial user companies, major security vendors, government, & academics. Working together, members drive approaches and standards for a secure, collaborative online business world.

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Platform Forum

  • Forum work areas include:
    • UNIX® strategy and standardization
    • The Single UNIX specification
    • The Austin Group
    • UNIX certification
  • Cross-Forum work area:
    • Real-time operating system profiles
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Real-time & Embedded Systems Forum

  • Forum work areas include:
    • Real-time & Embedded Systems strategy and standardization
    • Real-time Java
    • Real-time QoS
    • Real-time security
    • Real-time safety critical systems
    • Real-time operating system profiles
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Security Forum

  • Forum work areas include:
    • Security strategy and standardization
    • Security Guides for managers
    • Security design patterns
    • Access control
    • PKI guidelines and manageability
  • Cross-Forum work area:
    • Secure messaging
    • Identity management
    • Real-time security
    • Secure mobile architecture
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