The RMS CoP is a "Community of
Communities" comprised of government, industry and academia.
RMSC IPT: The
Records Management Service Components
Program Requirements Development Interagency Project Team (RMSC IPT)
represents 18 agencies across the Federal government. The agency
participants were named by their Chief Information Officers and
E-Government program managers as qualified to speak for their
agencies on session objectives.
The team produced a consensus document:
"Functional Requirements, Attributes, and Unified Modeling
Language Class Diagrams for Records, Management Services,
September 7, 2006." This document constitutes the foundation
document for the RMS-CoP
The RMS CoP was originally formed by the
participants in the RMSC IPT.
OMG:
The Object Management Group is an open-membership consortium
enjoying broad membership across Government, Industry, Acadamia
and other Consortia. The OMG's Government Domain Task Force (GovDTF)
issued a Request
for Proposal of a standard specification for web services
based on the RMSC IPT's requirements document (above).
An RMS Joint Submission Team formed (JRMS)
to author the specification in response to the RFP. The JRMS
consists of CA, CSC, 88 Solutions, and Model Driven Solutions.
Supporters of the effort are ARMA International, government
representatives (Archives and Treasury), and industry
representatives (such as Lockheed Martin Corporation,
Everware-CBDI and TethersEnd Consulting.)
A requirement of the OMG Process is that
submissions must be implemented before they are approved as an
OMG Standard, assuring commercial support for government
application.
An initial submission (http://doc.omg.org/gov/2007-03-03)
was reviewed by the GovDTF in its San Diego meeting at the end
of March 2007. The JRMS team is currently working on the Revised
Submission for consideration as standard by the OMG in its
December 2007 meeting in Burlingame CA.
The GovDTF is hosting
the home page for the RMS-CoP. It is at
http://gov.omg.org/rms. This page provides instructions for
subscribing to the RMS-CoP Threaded Discussion List (to which only
subscribers can post), and will have meeting announcements, minutes
and schedules.
Other Participants: Any members of
government, industry, or academia are welcome to join the RMS
Community of Practice by joining the threaded discussion list
(list-serve).