Comment MS Open Standards Participation (Score 1) 246
These extensions are built using a recently ratified open standard called WS-Management from the DMTF.
Microsoft and 11 vendors submitted a proposal to this standards body in 2005.
They then worked with the committee through the standards process as the spec evolved and came to its final standard status just recently.
The spec was ratified as preliminary standard in mid-2006.
Many changes were made by committee voting process. Microsoft's implementation is a core part of the OS, called "Windows Remote Management" or "winrm". As this was happening Microsoft kept its development team in sync with the committee so that changes could be made in the OS.
Vista shipped compliant with the Preliminary Standard version and MIcrosoft has shipped updates both to Vista and downlevel operating systems like windows XP to bring it into compliance with the standard.
The system center extensions make use of the winrm component to communicate with non-windows systems including Linux and embedded hardware such as Intel vPro and AMD equivalents.
you can find the specification at: http://www.dmtf.org/standards/wsman
Microsoft and 11 vendors submitted a proposal to this standards body in 2005.
They then worked with the committee through the standards process as the spec evolved and came to its final standard status just recently.
The spec was ratified as preliminary standard in mid-2006.
Many changes were made by committee voting process. Microsoft's implementation is a core part of the OS, called "Windows Remote Management" or "winrm". As this was happening Microsoft kept its development team in sync with the committee so that changes could be made in the OS.
Vista shipped compliant with the Preliminary Standard version and MIcrosoft has shipped updates both to Vista and downlevel operating systems like windows XP to bring it into compliance with the standard.
The system center extensions make use of the winrm component to communicate with non-windows systems including Linux and embedded hardware such as Intel vPro and AMD equivalents.
you can find the specification at: http://www.dmtf.org/standards/wsman
