Availability of COE Linux Platform review materials

The Open Group is adding the Linux Platform to its COE Platform
Certification program for DISA's Common Operating Environment and
announces a formal review of the draft materials.

The COE Linux Platform certification program review materials are now 
available at:
	http://www.opengroup.org/gesforum/doc-review/
All materials are available in pdf format, and the commenting format is
the aardvark format.

To submit comments you can either complete the web form at
	http://www.opengroup.org/gesforum/doc-review/bugreport.html

or if you prefer to make bulk comments send them by email to
	oggesforum-review@opengroup.org

See the website for the review timetable and detailed instructions.


About The Open Group's COE Platform Certification Program:
(See also http://www.opengroup.org/certification/idx/coe.html)

Widely deployed in the US Defense Department, the Common Operating 
Environment (COE) provides a foundation for building
open systems. It provides a standard environment, a set of standard
off-the-shelf components, and a set of programming standards that describe
how to add new functionality to the environment. 

The COE Platform certification program is an industry supported
certification program providing a level of assurance that a system
can:

  Provide services to applications software through conforming APIs

  Present a specific appearance and behavior at the Human/Computer
  Interface level

  Execute the Government Supplied Kernel Source code with the consistent
  required behavior

  Ensure that COE applications can be installed correctly and without
  conflict with other installed COE applications.

  Demonstrate interoperability and data interchange for a basic set of
  Internet Application level services

  Provide a minimum set of security features and security configuration checks

  Provide for installation and operation from the suppliers documentation
  from "out of the box" without any specialist knowledge.

This evolution adds the Linux operating system, building on LSB Certification
as described in the DISA Cross Compliance Criteria.


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Andrew Josey                                The Open Group
Director of Certification                   Apex Plaza,Forbury Road,