Check Your Understanding – Answers

1. The primacy of principles …​

D. …​ ensures that all decisions and decision-making processes will be based on principles agreed by, and openly acceptable, to all members of the Forum/Work Group.

2. A commitment to inherited principles …​

A. …​ of openness, consensus, public availability of published standards, no legal impediment to implementation or adoption, confidentiality, and executable standards is essential to the achievement of The Open Group vision and mission.

3. Collaboration …​

G. …​ is key to establishing goodwill and trust by being inviting, and hearing everyone’s voice; expressing rationale, not just positions; and enabling an informed decision-making process.

4. Our shared purpose …​

B. …​ is to advance a common standard knowing that everyone has a business rationale for participation, everyone has come here to make the industry better, and everyone shares the credit and benefits.

5. Formal processes …​

F. …​ must be followed for planning, operations, decision-making, and reaching consensus.

6. Obligations of leadership …​

C. …​ prioritize the need to facilitate the Forum/Work Group to pursue its agreed objectives, and to enable it, in an impartial and objective manner, to make its decisions balanced by consensus, fairness, and the voluntary nature of the organization.

7. Through openness and assumptions of good intent …​

E. …​ we should seek to collaborate and understand by validating assumptions and inference, and by clarifying the meaning of any special words used.