Document Library

Table of Documents

• Active Documents
  • Electronic Payments Interoperability RFI
  • Finance DTF Roadmap & Charter
  • Sensitive Data Management RFP
• Finance Meeting Minutes
• Adopted Techology
  • Currency
  • General Ledger
  • Party Management Facility
• Requests for Proposals
  • Sensitive Data Management
• Requests for Information (with Responses)
  • Electronic Payments Interoperability
• Whitepapers
  • Model Driven Payment Gateways Initiative
  • Next-Generation Universal Commerce Initiative
  • The Virtuous Circle: Electronic Payments and Electronic Growth
• Finance Roadmap & Charter
  • Finance Charter
  • Finance Roadmap
• Liaison Documents
  • ISO Documents
  • OAG Documents
• Other OMG Documents of Interest
  • OMG Hitchhiker's Guide, – Overview of Policies, Procedures, and Operation of the OMG in layman's terms
  • OMG Templates Page
    • Request for Proposal (RFP) Template
    • RFP Instructions (for Framemaker)
    • Final Submission Template (for RFPs and RFCs)
    • Revision Task Force / Finalization Task Force Final Report Template
    • Architecture Board Nomination Template
    • Chair Form / Template 
    • Chair Status Report - TC Friday plenary
    • IDL Style Guide
    • Approved Liaison Template
  • OMG Policies & Procedures, Always the Latest & Greatest
  • OMG Bylaws, Version 20
  • Election by Single Transferable Vote used for Architecture Board Elections
• General Document Retrieval

Requests for Proposals (RFPs)

Each RFP listed alphabetically. Italicized listings indicate active RFPs.

• Currency (Published - publicly available)
• General Ledger (Published - publicly available)
• Party Management Facility (Published - publicly available)
• Sensitive Data Management (Active - available to Members only)

Requests for Information (RFIs):

Each RFI Listing is followed by its listing of Responses. Italicized listings indicate Active RFI's

• Electronic Payments Interoperability RFI
  • Issued 30 April 2004: Responses due 2 August 2004

Whitepapers:

• Model Driven Payment Gateways Initiative, OMG
• Next-Generation Universal Commerce Initiative, OMG
• The Virtuous Circle: Electronic Payments and Electronic Growth, Visa International

Finance Roadmaps & Charter

The Roadmap serves as a plan and schedule for activity conducted by OMG's Finance Domain Task Force (Finance). It identifies categories of activity and specific work items within those categories; lists expected work item deliverables; and provides a schedule for work items. It also records the history of Finance Domain Task Force activity.

• Finance Charter
• Finance Roadmap Coming Soon! 

Liaison Documents

ISO Documents

This is a subset of the ISO documents available through the OMG/ISO Liaison that are of particular interest to Manufacturing DTF members.

• ISO JTC1/SC 21 N11081: Working Draft, ODP Enterprise Language
• ISO/IEC 14746-3: – 1996 – Open Distributed Processing – Reference Model – Part 1: Overview
• ISO/IEC 14746-2: 1995: – Open Distributed Processing – Reference Model – Part 2: Foundations
• ISO/IEC 10165-7 – SMI: – General Relationship Model (GRM)

Other OMG Documents of Interest:

• OMG Hitchhiker's Guide, the Policies & Procedures in a (large) nutshell. Also contains information on how to make the best advantage of OMG membership
• OMG Templates Page containing…
  • Request for Proposal (RFP) Template
    Generic RFP Template as mandated by the AB. Frame versions (.mif and .fm5 files) include Framemaker convenience features to assist authors - see instructions. Word versions have identical contents, but lack convenience features. This version contains new internationalisation requirements, as mandated by the AB in August 1999.
  • RFP Instructions (for Framemaker)
    Instructions for using Framemaker RFP template - Instructions for using RFP template with Framemaker features.
  • Final Submission Template (for RFPs and RFCs)
    Framemaker Submission Template - Framemaker template to be used for final, adopted submissions to OMG RFPs and RFCs
  • Revision Task Force / Finalization Task Force Final Report Template
  • Architecture Board Nomination Template - ab/98-11-02:
  • Chair Form / Template -
  • Chair Status Report - TC Friday plenary
  • IDL Style Guide
    OMG IDL Style Guide
  • Approved Liaison Template
    
• OMG Policies & Procedures This link points to the most recent P&P. The policies and procedures of the OMG technical process available in a multitude of file formats. One of the file formats is a .pdb file for downloading to a Palm Pilot PDA, where it can be read using the iSilo document reader, available in various versions (some free) from the iSilo Web site: http://www.isilo.com/
• OMG Bylaws, Version 20
• Election by Single Transferable Vote : This is the technique used to elect OMG Architecture Board Members. It is well laid out here, but is probably best understood if your British. If you're not, well… give it a go anyway.

General Document Retrieval

All the documents issued by the Finance DTF are stored electronically at the OMG site. Each document has an OMG document number of the form finance/yyyyy-mm-nn (where yyyy & mm are the year and month issued, and nn is a serially assigned number (starting with "01" for each month). Specific documents can be accessed by document number using the URL form:

http://doc.omg.org/finance/yyyy-mm-nn

[This URL form will return a list of all formats of the document available. Customarily, documents are supplied in Microsoft Word (.doc), Rich Text Format (.rtf), Postscript (.ps), and Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf). Occasionally other formats such as Microsoft Powerpoint (.ppt), FrameMaker, Zip and other formats will be encountered. Portable Document Format (.pdf), for text and graphics requires a freely available Acrobat reader.]

Any version of a Finance DTF document can be obtained via FTP by appending the document number and the relevant file extension to "ftp://ftp.omg.org/pub/docs/finance". For example, the Text version of the Finance Mission Statement can be obtained from:

ftp://ftp.omg.org/pub/docs/mantis/finance/96-01-02.txt