Management Matters, March 2008

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How Do I Unsubscribe from a DMTF Group?

If you are a part of a DMTF group (which is any committee, sub-committee, working group, etc.), each of these groups has a mailing list. Various actions may trigger email to be sent to this list (uploading documents, adding events, and sending email to the group mailing list).

Group members can now unsubscribe themselves from the group mailing list. You will remain on the group roster, but will no longer receive email from the group. Remaining on the group roster means you will still have access to the group, including the email tab so you can review group message history.

Unsubscribing is different from removing yourself from a group, which takes you off the roster and removes access to the group, in addition to unsubscribing from the group mailing list.

There are three easy ways for Group members to unsubscribe or manage their group mailing lists subscriptions:
1. From the "My Info" page
2. From the "Email Messages" pages.
3. From the “My Subscriptions” page

Unsubscribed users can also re-subscribe to the list at their convenience.

DMTF members can access additional details on unsubscribing (members only) from a DMTF group.

Alliance Partner Feature: CompTIA

The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) and DMTF have been collaborating since 2002 in the areas of diagnostics, warranty service, trouble ticketing and service incident management, utilizing the DMTF's Common Information Model (CIM) to provide standards and automated diagnostic processes to troubleshoot computer systems.

The purpose of this Work Register is to provide a channel for DMTF to receive requirements and design input, as well as implementation feedback from CompTIA - regarding managing and invoking diagnostics, exchanging help desk information, and processing service incidents.

Representing more than 18,000 member companies within the international technology community, CompTIA's goal is to provide a unified voice, global advocacy and leadership for its members, and to advance industry growth through standards, professional competence, education and business solutions. The mission of CompTIA’s services and service section is to help its members stay competitive and profitable by providing vendor-neutral standards in certification, ecommerce, customer service and workforce development to meet industry wide challenges.

For more information on CompTIA, click here.

Spotlight on the Interoperability Committee and DMTF Forums

The DMTF Interoperability Committee is chartered to deliver conformance, certification, and educational programs via the Forums that will enable the DMTF member companies to become conformant to and interoperable with the Common Diagnostics Model (CDM), Desktop and mobile Architecture for System Hardware (DASH), and Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware (SMASH) specifications. In the future, it is expected that virtualization will become an integral part of the program as well.

Much of the DMTF's interoperability work is handled by Forums - groups dedicated to a specific objective. Currently chartered DMTF Interoperability Forums are:

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Call for Contributors

DMTF invites you to contribute to Management Matters. DMTF welcomes letters to the editor, topic suggestions and other contributions. If you would like to participate, email us at press@dmtf.org.