This FAQ is to help explain The Open Group's Web Services .
- Introduction to The Open Group's Web Services ?
The Open Group has a number of integrated systems providing web services to meet the
various needs of consortia.
This infrastructure service provides the
foundational systems that enable consortia to establish a presence on
the Internet, enable web-based collaboration and communication within a
consortium, provide for membership and event management, and for
document review. The Open Group's computer systems integrate email and
web services employing a relational database system. This provides
both internet and intranet capabilities.
This set of FAQs attempts to answer frequent questions about The
Open Group's web services.
- How does The Open Group Web Access control work?
Access control to areas on the web is governed by membership
of mailing lists within The Open Group's
mail manager and access control database. Typically
such a list relates to a specific project, and
access to an associated project areas of the web site
is restricted to those individuals who have been granted project access
by the relevant Program Manager or Forum Director. You should
contact your contact at The Open Group to be added to the correct
access control list. Please ensure you let them know the project
area you need access to.
- What is the Sophocles Mail Manager ?
is a web interface to The Open Group's email/mailing list management database .
For more information see the Sophocles FAQs.
- What is a Plato Web site?
A Plato web is an example of what is often called Groupware or Web
Collaboration software. It is designed so that a group of people,
typically in a project or working group, can share items such as email,
documents, actions and calendar events, in a controlled area of the
For more information see the Plato FAQs.
- What is Secure FTP?
Secure ftp is used for some file exchange activities. It uses
encryption rather than plain text passwords being passed across the
12 May 2006