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Government Domain Task Force (GovDTF)

FTF: Records Management Service Finalization Task Force
(RMS-FTF)


 

Index

Reporting Issues

Anyone, OMG member or not, may submit an Issue with the RMS-FTF.

Issues may be reported by either the Web Form or eMail (links below) In either case report only one issue per form or email. Do not report an issue as "urgent" unless it is stopping production of a product since the FTF is required to resolve urgent issues within two (2) weeks.

Background:

The RMS-FTF was chartered in the Domain Technology Committee Plenary on 27-March-2009 in anticipation of a successful DTC electronic vote.

The mission of the RMS-FTF is to produce the initial Beta specification from the Alpha specification as approved by the GovDTF and the Architecture Board.

An F/RTF is chartered by the appropriate TC to gather comments on a particular OMG Specification from OMG Members and others, and to decide whether changes are necessary in response to those comments. An F/RTF may recommend changes that provide clarification of the wording without changing its intent, or minor revisions that correct the detail of the specification without adding or removing significant functionality. Enhancements to the specification are outside the scope of the F/RTF, and must be deferred to a later adoption process (see section 4.2).

Issue Resolution

The chair is responsible for moderating discussion of an issue, ensuring that a response is formulated, and organising the poll on that response. The chair will maintain an issue log that serializes issue discussion and documents resolution. From this issue log the Final Report of the RMS-FTF will be generated.

Email Discussion: All email discussion is to take place on the RMS-FTF@omg.org mail list. This mail list is archived and mail is sorted by the issue to which it pertains. Therefore include the OMG Issue Number in the subject line of each message and discuss only one issue in a given email (unless of course your point is that two issues are redundant, dependent, or otherwise coupled.) The eMail discussion will be recorded in the Issue Log.

Meeting Discussion: Most meetings will be held by teleconference. Whether a teleconference or face-to-face, the chair or a designated scribe will maintain minutes of the discussion for capture in the issue log.

Issue Ballots: When the chair initiates an email poll (ballot) he must set a voting deadline and take reasonable steps to ensure the F/RTF members are aware of it. To pass any motion in an F/RTF requires a simple majority of the non-abstaining votes cast. Quorum for all F/RTF polls, however conducted, is half the F/RTF membership; currently Four (4). The chair will record all ballots.

Members:

All members are to review the OMG Policy & Procedures, Section 4.4, "Finalisation and Revision". (http://doc.omg.org/pp/2009-01-02)

Larry Johnson, Tethersend Consulting is the Chair of the RMS-FTF

Members can only be added or removed by a successful motion in a Domain Technology Committee Plenary at an OMG Technology Committee meeting (removal can also be effected by the resignation of the member, of course).

Members are required to vote.

  • Any member who does not vote in any two of three consecutive ballots is removed by rule (OMG Policies and Procedures) with no exceptions. (Note: this includes the pattern NoVote/Vote/NoVote, not just two missed votes in a row.)
  • A vote of "Abstain" counts as a vote both for this rule and also counts toward quorum.
  • Members automatically removed cannot be re-instated except by a successful motion in the next DTC Plenary.

Members shown in bold are submitters with veto power (those who submitted Business Questionnaires acceptable to the Board of Directors.) A "No" vote is not a veto. To exercise veto power on an issue the qualifying member must explicitly vote "Veto".

  • John Butler, Everware-CBDI
  • Mel Greer, Lockheed
  • Victor Harrison, CSC
  • Larry Johnson, TethersEnd
  • Robert Lario, VisumPoint
  • Henk de Man, Cordys
  • Bill Manago, CA
  • Bob Spangler, NARA

Quorum is Four (4).

Schedule

Event or Activity

Date

Status/Notes

Beta Specification Publication

20090529

 

Completed

Comments Deadline

20100319

Extended at the Long Beach meeting, the old date was 20091204

Report Posting

20100524

The 4-week rule for the Minneapolis Meeting.

Extended at the Long Beach meeting. the old date was for the Long Beach meeting.

Report Deadline (FTF Dissolution)

20100702

Extended at the Long Beach meeting. The old date was 20100329

Related Documents

  • Manifest of Beta-1 Specification Documents
    • This is the base document which will be modified by the FTF through the resolution of issues.
    • This document was prepared from the Alpha Specification which is the submission adopted by the OMG. It was produced by removing the submission boiler plate and adding the standard specification boiler plate, and correcting any errors introduced by the conversion of the original Word format file to a PDF file by the OMG technical writers.
  • Manifest of Alpha Specification Documents
  • Functional Requirements, Attributes, and Unified Modeling Language Class Diagrams for RMS
    This document consolidates the original Dec 7, 2005 document (gov/2006-03-01) with its Mar 17, 2006 erratum (gov/2006-04-03) and a Jun 30, 2006 Addendum (gov/2006-06-14). It has been approved by the 19 agencies which approved the original. It contains the textual requirements and a UML model of those requirements (including a mapping from the UML to the text).
     
    • The UML Model of the RMS Requirements is available in Sparx EA v6.1 format at gov/2006-09-14.
    • An XMI v1.3 Sparx EA v6.1 export of the model is available at gov/2006-09-15
       
  • DoD 5015.02 STD -- "Design Criteria Standard for Electronic Records Management Software Applications," 19-June-2002
     
  • ISO 15489, "Information and Documentation -- Records Management"
    • This Standard is available for purchase at the indicated prices per part at
      http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CombinedQueryResult.CombinedQueryResult?queryString=15489
      Contact your country's ISO organization to purchase the standard in your local currency.
    • ISO 15489-1:2001 "Part 1: General" -- $96.00 USD
    • ISO 15489-2:2001 "Part 2: Guidelines" -- $132.00 USD
      (makes you appreciate the truly open, i.e., "free to the public", specifications of the OMG, doesn't it?)

Activity History:

20091207, Long Beach TC Meeting The FTF schedule was changed to report delivery for the Minneapolis meeting in June 2010.

20090624, San José, Costa Rica TC Meeting Initial FTF meeting/teleconference was held during the San José, Costa Rica TC Meeting. Issues identified by the original submitters were reviewed and those that were still unresolved were submitted to the FTF.

20090327, Washington DC TC Meeting The RMS-FTF was officially chartered by the Domain Technology Committee.


 
 

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