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You are here: Quality of Service > Work Area: Application Manageability and Quality of ServiceInteractive work areaOffered as a Separate Work Area or as Part of the QoS Task Force Work PackageThe objective of the QoS Strategy and Standardization effort, is to arrive at a standard approach to the propagation of customer-to-vendor and vendor-to-vendor QoS requirements and measurements in a manner that is quantifiable, observable, and interoperable, and realizes a process for end-to-end Quality of Service assurance which is acceptable to vendors and customers alike. The strategy is to determine what should be done to make existing QoS standards, Service Level Agreements, and policies more effective, and where standards and policies do not exist, what should be done to create them. This strategy is based on cooperation and inclusiveness. The QoS Task Force believes that in order to achieve true end-to-end QoS, it is essential to establish working relationships with all constituents vested in QoS requirements and solutions; customers (large and small), system vendors, application suppliers, equipment suppliers, system integrators, service providers, wire and wireless carriers, real-time and embedded systems, and to establish partnerships with all relevant QoS consortia. It is our intention not to duplicate, but to adopt and adapt where effective standards exist, and to facilitate the creation of standards and interoperability initiatives for Quality of Service where there are none. Some of the Major Projects in this Work AreaRelationship Building with Consortia to Map Information across Consortia BoundariesWhat really needs to happen and where we believe The Task Force can make a difference is in working to construct a common language, if you will, for mapping elements that are called one thing by one consortia, customer or vendor, and something completely different by another. There is not even a common language among standards bodies for QoS! We hope to drive that commonality by helping to map existing stovepipe efforts trough a common language or at least a common framework for understanding the entire end-to-end QoS picture. This objective of this Project is not only on building relationships with consortia, but to engage in real projects and joint initiatives, initiatives that map QoS standards, interoperability requirements, and assurances across IT and consortia domains. Some of the current Joint Initiatives we are working on are with: TeleManagement Forum, DMTF, and OMG. Standards Information Base (SIB)The Open Group's Standards Information Base is a database of facts and guidance about information systems standards. The standards to which it refers come from many sources: from formal standards bodies such as ISO, IEEE, IETF, to other consortia and user groups. This project will add all QoS-related Industry Standards to The Open Group's Standards Information Base so that it can be used as an important tool in mapping information associated with multiple QoS consortia and standards bodies. End-to-End QoS White PaperThis effort will produce an End-to-End Quality of Service White Paper that addresses the issues inherent in mapping QoS requirements and measurements within the Enterprise and across all domains and the problems that must be addressed if assurances and accountability for QoS in products and services are to be deliverable. Identify Capable Standards, Interoperable Solutions, and Provide for the delivery of Certification Programs for QoS ProductsThis project is evolving and will solidify rapidly once the Task Force and the Industry reaches the point where one or more set of standards is recognized as being capable of propagating QoS requirements and measurements across all domains and of enabling monitoring of those measurements to take place. Once the QoS Task Force has identified those capable sets of standards, then they will develop a certification program that will allow QoS assurances to happen. In addition to the projects listed above, each of the other QoS Work Areas, which can be subscribed to separately or as part of the total QoS Work Package, also support the Quality of Service Strategy as defined above.For more information on those separate work areas please see more details at the links below:
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