Preface

The Open Group

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• Technical Standards (formerly CAE Specifications)

  Open Group Technical Standards, along with standards from the formal standards bodies and other consortia, form the basis for our Product Standards (see above). The Technical Standards are intended to be used widely within the industry for product development and procurement purposes.

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  Anyone developing products that implement a Technical Standard can enjoy the benefits of a single, widely supported industry standard. Where appropriate, they can demonstrate product compliance through the Open Brand.

• CAE Specifications

  CAE Specifications and Developers' Specifications published prior to January 1998 have the same status as Technical Standards (see above).

• Preliminary Specifications

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• Consortium and Technology Specifications

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In addition, The Open Group publishes Product Documentation. This includes product documentation-programmer's guides, user manuals, and so on-relating to the DCE, Motif, and CDE. It also includes the Single UNIX Documentation, designed for use as common product documentation for the whole industry.

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This Document

Structure

• Part 1: Introduction

• Part 2: ASN.1 to OMG IDL Translation Algorithm

• Part 3: GDMO to OMG IDL Translation Algorithm

• Part 4: OMG IDL to GDMO/ASN.1 Translation Algorithm

• Part 5: SNMP to OMG IDL Translation Algorithm

• Part 6: OMG IDL to SNMP Translation Algorithm
  This part of the document is currently not provided.

• Part 7: IDL Modules and Examples

• Part 8: Comparison of Object Models
  This is an updated version of a Telecommunications Management Forum Technical Report, included here as non-normative, for background information only.

Acknowledgements

The following list names the key contributing individuals and their company affiliations at the time of their contributions:

The following companies were involved in the submission of this specification (excluding the SNMP part) as a response to the OMG's RFP (OMG RFP Document telecom/97-09-04) for a specification defining Interworking between CORBA and TMN Systems:

• Alcatel Alothom Recherche

• DSET Corporation

• Expertsoft Corporation

• Hewlett-Packard Company

• Highlander Communications, L.C.

• INPRISE Corporation (formerly Visigenic Software Inc.)

• International Business Machines Corp.

• IONA Technologies

• ISR Global Telecom, Inc.

• Lucent Technologies, Inc.

• Nortel Technology

• Sun Microsystems

• TCSI Corporation

• Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo S. A. Unipersonal

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