The Open Group annual Real-time and Embedded Systems (RTES) Forum, Apr. 26-28 in Washington, DC., will include sessions on open source licensing in high-assurance and safety-critical applications, application portability through open standards, high-security networking, and safety-/mission-critical real-time Java, according to a draft agenda published today.

The Open Group maintains and offers certification for standards such as POSIX (portable operating system interface), embedded real-time POSIX, the LSB (Linux standards base), CORBA (common object request broker architecture), DCE (distributed computing environment), LDAP (lightweight directory access protocol), Openi18N (open internationalization), WAP (wireless access protocol) and others. It is perhaps best known for maintaining the UNIX standard, but has actively cultivated open source community involvement for at least three years.

The Open Group's draft RTES agenda includes:

• Open source licensing issues in high assurance, safety critical applications
• Birds-of-a-feather (BOF) on “modeling performance-critical concerns”
• Tools, methods, and issues in achieving software portability across a range of environments based on open systems and open standards
• Protection profiles for a secure communications stack (IPv4, IPv6 Dual Stack), multiple processors, and possibly data storage
• Safety/mission-critical real-time Java specification development
• APIs for high-assurance safety-critical military applications

Additional details will be posted on April 24, according to the Open Group.

 
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