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OSF Interoperability Festival / OSF DCE Certification Program
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Raymond Mazzaferro)
Thu Jan 19 17:21:25 1995
Resent-From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 14:25:58 -0500
To: sig-dce@osf.org, sig-dce-business@osf.org, sig-dce-qual@osf.org,
dce-talk@osf.org
From: ram@osf.org (Raymond Mazzaferro)
Cc: bus-dev@osf.org, dstaff@osf.org, field-mgmt@osf.org, dce-projmgmt@osf.org
OSF Interoperability Festival (I-FEST)
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OSF is hosting its' Third Interoperability Festival (I-FEST '95) in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, from June 5th through the 16th.
OSF's Interoperability Festival (I-FEST), provides a large-scale
multi-vendor environment allowing engineers to work closely with one
another to solve interoperability issues on a real-time interactive basis.
Participants have access to other vendor systems and their engineers, that
may not be available to them otherwise. Vendors execute OSF designated
tests in specified OSF DCE configurations creating environments that
resemble end user scenarios. Successful participants will also complete
one of the steps towards achieving OSF DCE Certification for their
implementation.
During the first week of the event, participants will test their DCE
implementations bilaterally, in a heterogeneous environment, against each
of the other participants' platforms using the currently defined testing
requirements, in the applicable client and server configurations. During
the second week, participants' will perform additional testing of the
secure core (i.e., split and replicated servers), as well as test DFS and
GDS products.
Registration kits and testing requirement information for I-FEST '95 will
be available in early February 1995. For more information send mail to the
contact information below.
OSF DCE Certification Program
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The OSF DCE Certification program is a vehicle to ensure end users that OSF
DCE Certified products provide application, data, and platform
interoperability across DCE implementations. The objective of the OSF DCE
Certification Program is to ensure a consistent level of DCE functional
compliance across all products, where products are defined as a specific
hardware and software configuration.
The DCE certification program certifies the Secure Core, Distributed File
System (DFS) and Global Directory Service (GDS) components of DCE. The
Secure Core component includes the Threads (THR), Remote Procedure Call
(RPC), Security (SEC), Cell Directory Service (CDS), and the Distributed
Time Service (DTS) components of DCE.
The program consists of three parts:
1. Open Development
The program facilitates "open development" so that vendors can cooperate in
assuring interoperability before reaching the market place. Participants
are encouraged to do comprehensive interoperability testing in multiple
scenarios and configurations and make OSF Interoperability Program testing
an integral component of their own testing.
2. Validation Test Suite (VTS)
The applicant must submit to OSF a Statement of Conformance that their
product fully complies with the OSF Application Environment Specification /
Distributed Computing (AES/DC). The AES/DC specifies a comprehensive set
of application-level interfaces, as well as the associated semantics and
protocols, necessary to provide portable and interoperable implementations
and applications.
The OSF DCE Validation Test Suite (VTS) tests the conformance of a vendor's
DCE implementation against the portability and interoperability
specifications described in the AES/DC. These specifications cover the
syntax and semantics of the Application Programmer's Interface (API),
describe how implementations of the client and server runtimes communicate,
describe a set of abstract services that the runtime must implement, and
specify the conformance requirements that conforming implementations must
meet. Successful passage of the VTS is a requirement for certification. A
product successfully passes the VTS if the entire test suite can run on the
platform being certified with no failures other than those that are
explicitly waived by OSF.
3. Interoperability Festival (I-FEST)
Another requirement for certification is to attend the OSF Interoperability
Festival (I-FEST) with the platform being certified. Participants must
successfully achieve the testing requirements, in the applicable client and
server configurations, for the I-FEST event. For more information about
the I-FEST event see the description above.
Those products that submit the Statement of Conformance, successfully run
the VTS, and complete the I-FEST requirements are authorized to display
OSF's DCE certification seal for that product.
For more information about OSF's Interoperability Festival or OSF's DCE
Certification Program please contact:
Raymond A. Mazzaferro Interoperability Program Manager
Open Software Foundation Phone: 617-621-8869
11 Cambridge Center Fax #: 617-225-2943
Cambridge, MA 02142 Email: ram@osf.org, uunet!osf.org!ram
