 The Open Group vision is boundless information flow, achieved through global interoperability in a secure, reliable and timely manner. In other words, ensuring that the right information reaches the right people at the right time. Our tagline is making standards work, which essentially means delivering standards that had real business value. Here at the Open Group, standards are at the heart of everything we do. We develop standards and build certification programs to help drive adoption in the industry. As we say, we help our members solve business problems through technology standards. We've experienced in creating programs from scratch, with varying levels of evidence of conformance. At one end of the spectrum, we've created certification test suites, and at the other end, for instance, we've worked on vendor assertions of conformance. We've also experienced in creating standards of standards, such as the future airborne capability environment or FACE. That leads to the development of open standards for avionics systems. This is a good example of how we've collaborated and embraced other existing standards. All of our operations use the Open Group's proven standards development and consensus processes, and follow a number of principles. These are openness, both being open and being seen to be open, consensus, stable decisions are critical to adoption, timely and deterministic process, bias towards resolution, public availability of the standards, no legal impediment to implementation or adoption, and finally, confidentiality for free discussions during the development of the standards.