Object Management Group

Participated in OMG meeting held in Washington DC on January 11-13 1998.

• completed trip report
• co-chaired OMG Internet SIG
• completed, posted, and announced ISIG Minutes.
• Marshall Brinn (BBN) described ALP (at my invitation).
• Action: call Brinn re ALP-CoABS TIE.
• co-chaired OMG Agent WG
• completed, posted, and announced Agent WG Minutes.
• Brian Kettler (ISX) described the CoABS program and his CoABS Grid architecture (at my invitation).
• He commented he is reading our Grid papers which raise many architectural issues.
• Action:  Brian requested I sent him our Strawman Agent Reference Architecture and Agent Comparison. I volunteered for us to work with ISX and GITI on the grid architecture.  Next stop Las Vegas.
• Action:  Volunteered --
• draft Agent Architecture RFI to extend OMA with agent functionality.
• draft Mission for Agent SIG upgrade of Agent WG.
• draft OMG-FIPA liaison statement joint with Francis McCabe (Fujitsu).
• Spent offline time discussing OMG FIPA liaison w Francis McCabe
• contribute to Agent Architecture Green Paper being edited by Jim Odell.
• Spent 3 hours off-line discussing OBJS work with Kate Stout (Sun Agent Technology Team, Boston, same building as Jini)
• Read her FIPA-99 CFP proposal "Specify an Architecture Reference Model - Model for FIPA Agent Systems".  Invited her to CoABS (subject to Hendler approval) and she would have come except FIPA Korea is the same dates.
• Showed her our Scaling OSA and Agility presentations and the MBNLI demo.  She was interested in several prototypes.
• Action:  Send Kate Grid papers and Strawman Agent Ref Arch.  Also send these papers to FIPA
• Action:  ways to work with Sun Agent Technology Team
• work with Sun on Agent Reference Architecture and place at FIPA and OMG
• map DARPA CoABS technology through Sun
• OBJS technology jewels exported to Sun/NS/AOL
• OMG Chairs Dinner - attended this, talked with old friend Larry Johnson, boring business meeting, there are now a LOT of chairs